You are speaking my language, Rick, my fellow boomer. That's the exact topic of my book, How to Dismantle an Empire, which talks about those 800+ military bases and how we became pawns of the monetary system and how to get out of it. Change who our labor serves, to being the community rather than the bankers, and I believe the rest will come. We already have solutions and plenty of creativity but a system that actively suppresses whatever interferes with profits.
For me, it's not a matter of begrudging students education (and we should be clear that education, all you can eat, is already freely available in books and on the internet). What they pay an arm and a leg for is a degree, authorized by the powers-that-be, which has a curriculum that serves the corporatocracy.
If you're paying for teachers and buildings and administration, that's not free, it's taxpayer subsidized. So then you need to decide how much education anyone deserves, who's entitled to teach, what subjects you're willing to pay for, and who's qualified to take them. It leads to centralized control and a point where that student has to stop learning in order to work and pay for other people to learn.
In my system, I say that cheap is better than free because it puts the person in control of what they want to learn and from whom. It makes learning (with travel!) lifelong and subsidizes it equally for all people throughout their lifetimes, rather than concentrating it in four intensive years. Check it out if interested, and here's my book and an episode on building a new economic model:
You are speaking my language, Rick, my fellow boomer. That's the exact topic of my book, How to Dismantle an Empire, which talks about those 800+ military bases and how we became pawns of the monetary system and how to get out of it. Change who our labor serves, to being the community rather than the bankers, and I believe the rest will come. We already have solutions and plenty of creativity but a system that actively suppresses whatever interferes with profits.
For me, it's not a matter of begrudging students education (and we should be clear that education, all you can eat, is already freely available in books and on the internet). What they pay an arm and a leg for is a degree, authorized by the powers-that-be, which has a curriculum that serves the corporatocracy.
If you're paying for teachers and buildings and administration, that's not free, it's taxpayer subsidized. So then you need to decide how much education anyone deserves, who's entitled to teach, what subjects you're willing to pay for, and who's qualified to take them. It leads to centralized control and a point where that student has to stop learning in order to work and pay for other people to learn.
In my system, I say that cheap is better than free because it puts the person in control of what they want to learn and from whom. It makes learning (with travel!) lifelong and subsidizes it equally for all people throughout their lifetimes, rather than concentrating it in four intensive years. Check it out if interested, and here's my book and an episode on building a new economic model:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607/
https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/build-a-new-model
Thank you for your reply and your offer.
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