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I'm fairly amused that someone expects me to watch some video I find boring, so I would "do better".  It's not remotely about doing better, or worse. It's MY time obviously, I choose how to spend it for the most part.  I don't expect folks to watch videos I surface if they don't want to, and I surely expect nobody can DO anything if there is some problem, for the most part.  A few times there can be a plea for charity, fine with me.

I might as well watch soccer, or two Tech students in a bar trying to score.

I used to give "talks" that were boring.  I knew they were boring, nearly all talks of that nature were boring.  Folks struggled to pay attention.

We had one dude come in from another company give a talk about their product, whatever it was, and he "spiced it up" with photos of scantily clad women, with comments about them.  The thing is, we were a very straight laced outfit, and had female coworkers in the audience.  One of them made a stink about it.  I never knew ths whole story, but it went on for some time, and the VP of that other company finally wrote a letter of apology to us that was shared widely, I suppose as an attempt to make it go away, which it did.  But it still made the lunch time convo for some time.

Honestly, I watched and found it entertaining. But ultimately I didn't find that it found concrete policy ideas to fix anything. The few thrown out at the end were mostly political non-starters. Including means-testing Social Security, which I am in favor of but will never happen.

It seemed more along the lines of Don Quixote tilting against windmills than anything meaningful.

I don't know, I got stuck on the first point, that college is getting too expensive but that we also need to make the top colleges more accessible.

Not only do I fundamentally disagree with this, but I believe pretty much the opposite.

Our university system is broken because we're using it as a de facto vocational clearinghouse for basic classes of jobs, and it was never intended for that.

Instead we should focus youth on attending ACTUAL vocational schools and learning trades.  These are high paying jobs that don't require mountains of debt to obtain.

CD often points out that in Europe, only something like 30% of kids go on to college.  The rest go into trades, vocational training for hospitality, and dozens of other more suitable options for people who don't need a college education for the jobs they ultimately end up obtaining.  That's the kind of ratio we should be shooting for here in the US.

We need fewer colleges, not more.  We need fewer students attending colleges, not more.

I find it condescending.

people that care about the future are noble, the old and rich are lazy.

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Huh.  I don't consider any of the highways around here to be particularly dangerous.  Annoying and slow and congested with traffic, definitely.  But all those slow-downs are what prevent them from being particularly dangerous.