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@AnthonyAllenJr College is the biggest scam. What knowledge in a textbook can’t be found on the internet? How much effort is required to update information on the internet versus printing a new edition for every college textbook for every subject? The amount of energy required to print new editions is astronomical compared to changing an entry in a database. Those in charge condition people to think that the ONLY legitimate path to a higher education is through college, and this creates an artificially high demand for a low quality product which is free to remain status quo through government subsidization. Teach a child some knowledge, they learn for a day. Teach child to seek knowledge, they learn for a lifetime.
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Thus, the reason why college tuition continues to grow despite the availability of knowledge having increased dramatically. It’s basic evolution. If you subsidize a bad idea, better ideas will never be able to gradually overtake and replace them. Because college education has been heavily subsidized (coupled with the certification process), better modalities for education CANNOT compete. On top of that, the book industry should have died off a decade ago, and it would have had the college industry NOT artificially supported it. Asking “WHO should pay for college is a red herring designed to distract people from the fact that social programs conducted at the national level retards industry and/or innovation. The best proof of this is the Cold War. The correct question to ask is, “WHY is college tuition so high?” Any graph going back to the 60s shows tuition cost growth diverging from inflation growth.
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@TabbyLavalamp Except, “knowing” how we got here isn’t the same thing us “understanding” how. Critical thinking is not promoted in learning institutions anymore.
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@ORLY911 That isn’t unchecked capitalism. 😂 That is pure corporatism. It wouldn’t matter what deal publishers have with colleges if colleges weren’t subsidized by government. Have you ever really thought about what would happen if government backed school loans were abolished? Don’t consider JUST first order effects, either. That’s how they emotionally condition people to accept the status quo and not evolve the way we teach and learn.
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Points taken. However, simple concepts are always connected to other simple concepts creating a mesh network of ideas. While you may have stated a couple simple facts, there is far more context than your original comment or explanation articulates. I can respect the desire to keep statements simple, as I try to do the same. Your use of “us” still left much to decipher as I stated before. I directed my comment at YOU which left me to determine whom, besides yourself, constituted as “us.” Yes, I could have expended more effort in determining what you meant by every word that you used, but I thought it more efficient to ask for clarification directly from you. Happy Easter to you as well. Farewell.
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@walterbrunswick 😂 Communism and socialism is what turns capitalism into corporatism. 😂 The dichotomy between individualism and collectivism is the determining factor behind whether a nation becomes centralized or decentralized. Decentralization beats centralization hands down EVERY time as evidenced by billions of years of evolution. America is this way today because China learned from the Cold War which wasn’t a political conflict. It was an economic conflict. Individualism and free market capitalism crushed communism in industry and innovation. This is why China adopted capitalism and infected America with socialism. Nice try, but you have no idea what you are talking about. 😂
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“Having to use IT books that are even 2 years old is like having to write with a stone slate.” Even more ironically, our technologies brought us BACK to stone slates called semiconductor wafers. The point that technology constantly changes necessitates a commensurate increase in the technology used to store and disseminate that information. THIS is why “updating” books is so ridiculous. The IT field is ABSOLUTELY about digitization, yet we are still reliant on analog technologies to teach it. How can you not see the ridiculousness of that situation? I reread some of our back and forth, and I do respect your point of view. That said, you have to abstract to solve problems. That’s how all problems are solved. All of them. That’s how nature resulted in the development of brains. Neurons organize to symbolically retain concepts of reality in order to manipulate the abstractions of those ideas into different configurations far more quickly and efficiently than DNA ever could. Neurobiology is just the evolution from biological evolution to intellectual evolution; from material evolution to ideological evolution. This ideological evolution can then be re-instantiated back to the material. Our brains abstract logical symbols from one instance of material reality, then they instantiate a new material reality. Instantiation > abstraction > instantiation > abstraction... Anyhow. I hope you had a good Easter. Cheers 🍻
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@modilly2604 Yes. I did answer why, but I’m not the one creating social policy OR advocating for those same social policies. 😂
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@yeager6882 😂 No it doesn’t. It goes up because subsidizing bad ideas sustains them. Imagine paying criminals to steal. What is the incentive to stop stealing? 😂
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@yeager6882 😂 You make some bold claims. 😂 What practical information can’t be found?
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@AnthonyAllenJr Nope. At most, government promised necessities, but you really want to be promoting communal effort where people learn to trust and rely on other ACTUAL people, instead of some nebulous and faceless entity.
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@AnthonyAllenJr Any form of universality is antithetical to evolution and progress. It’s the effort to impose order on chaos that generates evolution. No chaos; no effort; no evolution.
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@nitro361 Planned obsolescence.
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@AnthonyAllenJr No. Humans actually are. The medulla is designed to impose whatever order the cerebrum dictates on the chaos in its environment. Neurons are designed to record data and reconfigure that data to facilitate realizing that reconfiguration. Without chaos, neurons lose their purpose and break their connections. Fewer connections means fewer activations means fewer resources means death.
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@yeager6882 You keep hiding behind the word “everything” when the point is practical information. 😂
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@yeager6882 How much information in colleges textbooks CANNOT be found in the internet? Also, you don’t seem to understand what man’s greatest invention was. Tell me what that is, and we will see if this conversation is even worth it.
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@yeager6882 Your monologue about math flies i the face of your derision over technology. 😂 It’s like your corpus callosum is damaged, and each hemisphere is taking turns responding. 😂
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@Chris Sears That’s the problem: “There is always a new SYSTEM.” Singular. The variation in personality and aptitudes dictate that there will never be, nor should ever be ONE system to impose on every individual. The free market has replaced the wilds of nature regarding evolution. Genetic evolution is no longer our defining factor. It is mnemetic evolution. DNA evolves over long times spans where as neurons can evolve their configuration in an instant. Therefore, evolution is now about the best idea, not the best trait. Any centralization imposed upon a system to create homogeneity removes the catalyst for evolution. Colleges competing against each other isn’t the competition we need. We need different modalities of education to compete with the modality of college education. That competition will never be on a level playing field as long as government continues to feed an idea that would not be able to stand on its own against the rapid innovation of new ideas.
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The irony of acknowledging the advancement of technology while supporting the idea of books. 😂 Books are barely a step above tablets. 😂
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@yeager6882 “Subsidizing bad ideas is the consequence, not the cause, DUMBIE” 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 Here is a simple analogy: Suppose you have two species of hummingbirds: long beaked and short beaked. It stands to reason that the longer beak would be more conducive to more resource gathering. You can even make an argument that the shorter bill confers some benefit making it the superior genetic trait. It doesn’t matter which one you choose to be the superior trait, the point is natural selection will tend to erase bad genetic traits as the better genetic traits are more efficient at gathering resources. Now imagine feeding the bird with the inferior traits. It now becomes the dominant species as the other one dies off. The inferior trait is artificially sustained such that ALL other superior traits that manifest also die off. The college modality for teaching is one species of hummingbirds. All the other technologically superior modalities that may be propose will never have a chance to replace the college modality because it is artificially sustained against competition.
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@yeager6882 I agree with just about everything that you said about math, however, you are too narrow in your assessment of the state of education. What you said applies to just about every other subject because Establishment educational systems practice something that even Plato said wouldn’t work: forced education is inefficient and deprives educators of the opportunity to ascertain an individual child’s aptitude. PLAY is ALWAYS the best form of education, and bifurcation the engaging aspect of play from the educational aspect has had deleterious effects on society. The engaging aspect was left to compete in the free market which resulted in major evolutions in the entertainment industry while the educational aspect was left to stagnate under the auspices of “beneficent government mandates.” Society evolved, and education didn’t evolve with it.
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Pick a comment for further explanation. I can’t read you mind to determine where your confusion originates.
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One moment. I have to sift through 70+ comments to find the ONE you are referring to. Also, since you are keen on using “obvious” to denote meaning, I’ll assume that you will have no issues with any further assumptions. 😂
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“I have no clue what exactly you are trying to tell us in the context of the original discussion.” I assume “us” means you and the OP? Or does it mean everybody that I have responded to in this comment section? If you are referring to my comment that I directed at YOU, it is difficult to determine what you mean by “US.” I’ll assume you and OP: OP made a valid observation that a slight change from one edition of a book to the next puts an unnecessary strain on the economy for such a negligible issue by way of such a large waste of resources. You ALSO make a valid claim in that certain subjects rapidly evolve which would justify significant changes between consecutive editions of a book. The point I made addressed both of your points in that a new edition does not automatically mean a new book. There are other solutions that address BOTH of your points, and that was the irony I referred to. You see, there is a dichotomy that most people don’t address about existence. There is a material understanding and an ideological understanding of existence. The different editions of a source of knowledge is an ideological concept that can be accommodated by various material solutions when instantiating the idea of an “updated edition.” A simpler example for you to wrap your head around... “Cup” is an ideological concept. Cups only exist in the mind by way of assigning a purpose/function to a material object. A “cup” has a single purpose that can be facilitated in a multitude of ways. Conversely, material objects have a single set of physical properties which can be assigned multiple purposes. A rock can be used as a projectile, a bludgeon, a weight, a barricade, and so on. The whole basis behind innovation is the manipulation of ideological concepts as they are instantiated through material realization. The most innovative ideas are those that assign multiple functions as a base aspect of the design, like a spork.
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@scrollserrayt8566 EXACTLY!!
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@Rattopaz Multiple book stores going out of business supports your opinion. Government subsidizing college, and college subsidizing the book industry has allowed both higher education AND the book industry to grow in cost much faster than the inflation rate.
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@walterbrunswick “education” 😂 Just like in America today. 😂
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@walterbrunswick Are they communists? 😂
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@walterbrunswick I have no doubt that your assessment of “burden” is based on an extremely narrow and short-sighted consideration of facts. Emotional rhetoric tends to minimize context as much as possible as it is difficult for an emotional person to consider multiple variables in a single problem. That’s why socialists and communists can’t build a successful business, they can only argue to appropriate others’ hard work. 😂
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@ribbonsofnight Even two year colleges “obsolete” editions after a year. By adding a picture or two, a textbook will be deemed “updated” creating a “need” to use the most “updated” material. Completely digitizing resources, which is millions of times more efficient, isn’t even necessary to destroy the book industry. If schools just incorporated supplemental materials, the book industry would collapse.
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@ribbonsofnight Believe me, when the socialists finish with America, they’ll be spreading their stupidity everywhere else. If they can bring down America, they can bring down any cuntry. 😂
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@discountchocolate4577 “History” is relatively static. There are basics that will seldom change, and any nuances that change can easily be put into more advanced classes. When was the last time the battle of Thermopylae changed or when the Declaration of Independence was signed?
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@walterbrunswick “Education” was “free.” Explain “free.” Even thoughts aren’t free. You need energy gradients to maintain the physical structure of the brain in order to crate and maintain a thought. 😂
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@discountchocolate4577 I understand that. The OP is about schools requiring a new edition every year for very little change. Furthermore, digitized materials have very little “update costs” compared to conventional books. On top of that, you don’t need whole editions reprinted when errata suffices. The point is, government allows for extremely inefficient methods of knowledge dissemination which goes largely undiscussed in conversations about costs of education. Government is antithetical to evolution, and the more central the government, the less evolution occurs.
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