Bugmaster comments on Rationality Quotes November 2011 - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Jayson_Virissimo 01 November 2011 06:28PM

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Comment author: Bugmaster 03 November 2011 05:45:15PM 0 points [-]

I haven't read that many bio-snippets, so you may be right. My gut feeling is that the OWS protesters are mainly complaining about our lack of a social safety net and a broken political system, but I have no hard data to verify this.

That said, I think your next sentence rests on some incorrect assumptions. You say:

Honestly; if the 99% is comprised of people who after two years of schooling have 60,000 in student debt knowing they have no career opportunities ahead of them ... why are they doing it?

You are implicitly assuming that a). the primary purpose of college is to prepare you for a specific career; and that b). it is relatively easy to pick a career, put yourself through training for that career, and then reap the financial rewards. IMO both of these assumptions are wrong. I'm prepared to defend my views, if you're interested (assuming I interpreted your comment correctly, that is).

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 03 November 2011 05:57:04PM 4 points [-]

I think the quibble is more to do with why anyone would accrue $60,000 of debt knowing they'd have limited means of repaying it.