Why is it that change so often is mostly supported by the young?

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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,839
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBOW7gKmixA
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    ^^^Haha! Yep, about sums it up... in a generalized sense. :wink:
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    Man i love Carlin.
    The college tuition thing always bothers me cuz like cuny for example used to be free until the mid seventies and it was a much better education back then, making there was more opportunities for graduates than there is now.

    I read something about this a while ago and I think it was something to do with population demographics. As in there's not only more baby boomers in power making the decisions, but more if of them in general. Also, they're the first generation to be living longer, post retirement. So the funding that used to be adequate to provide for the young has to stretch to cover the costs of the old in cases of social security, Medicare. Etc. So simply that there's more of them, with more needs than their processors, fighting for their piece of the pie even if it's at the expense of their own kids. Which becomes more complicated by the fact that they're used to having their needs addressed (such as in the example of free, meaningful education in the sixties).

    I don't like the idea of blaming it all on boomers though. There's enough blame to put on gen x and y for not fighting the things that hurt the social welfare systems as well. So that now the millennial are crying out for a life raft cuz they certainly are drowning.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,384
    https://coursera.org/

    Yale ... Michigan ... Penn St ... AZ ... IL ... UDub ... Brown ... Stanford ... W. Virginia ... Minny .. UK. ... Cornhuskers ... Colorado ... Princeton ... Columbia ... Duke ... ASU ... Northwestern ..


    ALL FREE!!!!!!

    yet they wont give you a degree. they are happy to contribute and make themselves look progressive, yet ...
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    gimmesometruth27 said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBOW7gKmixA

    nice
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    https://youtu.be/V9bVnQPaj48
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,773
    ^^^ Some good points but, wow, does this guy ever have a good day or lighten up a bit? Grouser!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    Jason P said:

    https://coursera.org/

    Yale ... Michigan ... Penn St ... AZ ... IL ... UDub ... Brown ... Stanford ... W. Virginia ... Minny .. UK. ... Cornhuskers ... Colorado ... Princeton ... Columbia ... Duke ... ASU ... Northwestern ..


    ALL FREE!!!!!!

    yet they wont give you a degree. they are happy to contribute and make themselves look progressive, yet ...

    um actually, the certificates are NOT free anymore. It's $50 per now. You can still get the lessons and stuff for free but you no longer anything stating that you finished/passed/completed the course.
    Trust me I'm kicking myself over that one.
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  • PJfanwillneverleave1
    PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    ^^^
    $50 to say you completed education?
    Seems like a steal to me.
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

    ^^^
    $50 to say you completed education?
    Seems like a steal to me.

    it's not a completed education. It's a certificate for a specific course. It's peer reviewed you don't get a grade and it doesn't count toward a degree. It used to be called a Certificate of Course Completion but I don't know if they still call it that.
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