Why should we pay for other peoples’ education?

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24. What about when education doesnt lead to a job except for maybe 10% of us, should we rise to the cha

challenge? Even though it will likely take multiple PhDs and owneing some niche of science to get hired?

YES. here is why. in that future we only have two choices, a welfare state or genocide. Since we'll be unbelievably rich because machines will do everything for practically nothing, a lot of people are likely to drop out of education when they realize they will never get that good going to school until they know what it is that they want to study. And they don't.

It wont be enough to want to study something, people will have to like it to even hope to attain that leve of accomplishment. Money is simply not the great motivator that the thirst for knowledge is once somebody reaches a certain point. Its nice but its not the primary motivator of all of the great scientists I have known. (All of whom lived very UN-ostentatious lives- absorbed in their work and families.)

At the same time, a smaller number of people will be freed by the shift to really reach their true potential, as society's resources will be freed up to help THEM more.

I think that in the final analysis there will only be one possible path for all of us and that will be to give people who want it and can handle it free education, as long as they are making progress and doing something constructive with their time (that is all important, because time is precious) Also, knowledge is precious. more so than money, far more.

We have to realize our long term goals should be to move beyond this planet and strike out into the stars.