kinda wild - theoretically i'm aligned, but can see this also quickly becoming a shitshow 😂

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kinda wild - theoretically i'm aligned, but can see this also quickly becoming a shitshow 😂 
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I don't get why corporations can't fill the gap of higher learning

Corporations obligations are to stakeholders first and foremost. It's a financial obligation.

So they are incentivized to create educational programs that maximize their competitive edge.

Corporations training people for a necessary skill: ✅ Great!

Corporations masquerading as an alternative to a general education: ❌ Dystopian

Now if they wanted to fund a separate public nonprofit organization with complete autonomy to provide a general education that's totally different. 

But if it's just "corporate school" I highly recommend doing some research on "company towns" and learning why those weren't good for people either.

It's pretty nuanced, but I think it's significant to point out that corps, despite what the individual ppl working for them might feel personally, have no interest in benefiting society; "they", as a corporate entity beholden to shareholders, have an interest in benefiting their influence over society. 

If there's an option to solve a societal problem in a way that benefits everyone equally and doesn't have any downsides, but it creates less opportunity for corporate profit, big corps will choose to push society a different direction and use whatever resources at their disposal, including an "education system" to train everyone that their value-extractive solution is better.

It's a conflict of interest, so we shouldn't assume that corps will have society's best interest in mind at any point in the process.

So my point is that in order for us to have an education system that doesn't have perverse incentives, it has to be an open system with transparency and accountability. Corps can help, just not control.

I was half joking 🤣

thank you for this explanation tho 

ideally, corporations would act in a way that is beneficial to the people. at the end of the day just like government, they're nothing without us

certainly wouldn't suggest general education replaced by corporate structure. just specific skilled industries, could start in necessity areas like medicine and see which ends up more successful over time. public funded or private 

so yeah the problem isn't necessarily the corporations its the shareholders