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Robin Hanson | The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives and Social Agendas
The Foresight Institute Podcast
Why Do We Go to School?
People are more interested in showing this emotional response to the people around them than they are in actually giving to the most effective. You get paid three times as much for the last year f high school or the last year of college, even though you don't learn more in those years. Why? What if the school's about learning faster? Don't you doesn't a school want to help you learn faster? And won't they advertise that and get more people to come to the school so you can learn faster at the school? If schools were about learning more? Well, plausibly, schools are not about learning more.
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