I will not be posting until I get the new computer (Apple this time) but a comment by Cranberry under Birth Dearth has me thinking, and I may do a short series of posts on the topic when I am up and running again.
I will not be posting until I get the new computer (Apple this time) but a comment by Cranberry under Birth Dearth has me thinking, and I may do a short series of posts on the topic when I am up and running again.
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Interesting comments. One of the obvious mechanisms is a decline in trust: will this man (or woman) be there to help me take care of the children? Will there be extended family support when (not if) times get hard? Easy divorce makes trust hard, but I foresee explosions if someone tries to tighten the rules. A "no federal contracts" rule would make it hard for research teams to hire anybody, and new graduates to get hired at all (view from the research side here), so one size doesn't fit all, and complicated rules ... well...
"Education" is pretty mechanized. Granted, in math it takes a very rare bird to learn enough to be a mathematician without interacting with others, and for most the best work is done young. But ongoing education/off-campus/returning-student education seems to be thought of as second-best, and it shouldn't be. A cynical whisper says the colleges themselves want it that way.
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