• adam_y@lemmy.world
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    I see a lot of folk have spotted the skilled work issue.

    Perhaps a slight solve to this isn’t making education free, but actually counting those hours as work.

    Like, be paid to be educated.

    The fallout of this, of course, is that we have to let go of the notion that anybody can do anything. Strict skills based examinations and vastly increased competition for some jobs.

    Ultimately a lot of people will be forced into working jobs they don’t want, especially those with disabilities.

    Oh wait, I think we’ve just rediscovered Ayn Rand by accident.

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      I think some kind of system where you bank those hours and they multiply your rate when you actually work, paying back the hours you studied after you’ve proven you can succeed.

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      No, Rand pretended there wasn’t coercion in capitalism. There is. People work jobs they don’t want.

      The problem is they work then too much, because the surplus goes to capitalists.