I’ve had a really bad headache all day.

I went to the Wildlife center today with a couple of people to complete the post-service project for aB. Only one other person from my actual group showed up, the others were stand-ins. I usually have a good time doing these sorts of things but it felt like a ton of dwarves were using chisel hammers on my skull. I almost fainted but then I drank some water and felt better. Water always makes me feel better (so dependable <3).

“Catch a man a fish and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.” - Marx

I’ve been arguing for years that decentralized education / occupational licensing is something this country sorely needs. It would be profoundly stupid not to take advantage of what digital technology allows us to create for one another.

In a few years, though, people will start to wonder whether capitalism and education are fundamentally incompatible in the digital age, given that the people who make the most money in this system are not the socially productive people who share their knowledge, but rather, the ones who create artificial scarcity for their knowledge and skills (i.e., human capital.) 

You can’t sustain an advantage over other people without creating barriers to entry of some kind, and the private sector will always want to make a profit by creating artificial scarcity.

But from a public policy perspective, in the digital age, knowledge should always be treated as a public good. If food was infinitely reproducible, we could end world hunger. Why not ignorance?

-Bill Harrison 

you thinkin’ wut I thinkin’.

The article.