In this alternate universe school is completely funded by the government and housing is included.

  • Riskable@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    It’s already like that except the funding part. There’s free online learning for basically anything available to everyone in the world, 24/7. And people do take advantage of it.

    You can learn whatever TF you want from reliable, trusted sources it’s just that all you get from it is the knowledge. You don’t normally get a degree or a certificate or anything like that. Because those things are for traditional institutions (and how they make money).

    If you really want to learn something, go learn it. What’s stopping you?

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      2 months ago

      If you really want to learn something, go learn it. What’s stopping you?

      Work.

      If I don’t work full time I can’t afford to house or feed myself.

      Work wipes me out mentally leaving me no mental bandwidth to spend what precious little time I have left to go learn, even if I want to.

      I would love to be able to dedicate time to learning like I did when I was at university but even with the government funding available to me I would have to upend my life.

      I do spend time doing learning around things that interest me but it is depressing how little bandwidth work leaves for me to do that.