Hacker News Reader

Comment by ivankirigin | Hacker News Reader

No, they won't converge. It will get easier to live comfortably. With less effort required to live, fewer people will seek out education.

View on HN

Standards rise too, though. When I was poor I was way better off materially than most rich people were 200 years ago. But I still felt poor, and felt like I had to get a lot more money to have a comfortable life.

We're still a long way from solving the logistical and sociological problem of getting food to everyone that is starving. Here's hoping that we converge towards that.

Do more people forgo education today than did in the past?

More people go to college now than ever. It's getting easier to live comfortably if you're educated. If you're not, it's getting harder and harder.

Educated != went to college, I'm afraid. Economics professors would probably be mortified by the number of economics grads that don't bother reading the economist.

Getting harder and harder if you didn't go to college?

Have you ever been to a best buy? It's getting easier and easier for someone of meager standing to have an entertainment center that only the rich could afford two decades ago.

College today is a lot about entertain and fun. Huge student centers, little emphasis on the "boring hard parts". It is inevitable that standards decrease as more people go to college to meet the ridiculous college-education requirement of button-pushing jobs.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com