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@barrkel I don’t think we disagree on that. Yes, if markets are good for anything (in principle at least), it’s asking people to make balanced tradeoffs between their individual wishes and the needs of others. Employment markets are very much a part of that.

The thing is, education that is attuned the •current market• is inherently ephemeral — and if it’s the •whole• education, it narrows people. You’re missing what I wrote about “asking students to conform to the world, not to reshape it:”