Video and Topic Review
October 2018 Monthly Meeting
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Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College
Is College/University the only Route to Career Success?
"If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit," says TV personality Mike Rowe, best known as the longtime host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs.
Video In Review:
URL: https://youtu.be/qzKzu86Agg0
Video Title: Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College
Featuring: Nick Gillespie interviewing Mike Rowe
Produced by: Reason TV
Publishing Date: 13 December 2013
Platform where video was found/displayed: You Tube
Meeting Discussion:
Crowd HQ
1240 Albany Hwy, Cannington WA 6107
Topics emerging during the meeting:
The following is a list of topics that were either observed directly being discussed in the video or they were associated with the video by meeting chair Cameron Gibbs or by others in attendance at the monthly meeting.
The video was discussing a situation within the USA but it also has parallels to things happening in Australia where the meeting was held and in other countries.
Situational differences and similarities between the USA and Australia
Social Money into universities VS Private money into universities
Learning for the sake of it VS Learning for a purpose
Is University obsolete?
Modern learning methods including The Kahn Academy
Access to knowledge
Who is checking that you actually know something?
Over supply of degrees
Is "Work" as an institution obsolete?
Universal Basic Income
Cryptocurrency
The Politify project, Altruism First
Alternative economic systems
Job redundancy
Freelancer working
What Mike Rowe describes as "Mercinary working"
Cost of the degree / learning
Health and fitness more important than learning
The USA currently offers scholarships to support the following:
Intelligence
Athleticism
Need
Who supports work ethic?
How do we promote the other ideas and values that society needs and wants?
"Work Smart Not Hard" is transformed to "Work Smart And Hard"
In a new world economy, who is going to do the heavy lifting? Who is going to build the roads, fix the septic tanks and sewers. Who is going to clean the streets and process the recycling?
Can we rely on companies and capitalism to serve the social need?
Can we rely on government to serve the social need?
Do not for profits, charities, volunteer organisations and NGOs adequately fill the gaps in need that are not supplied by companies and government?
Follow your passion VS Follow opportunity
Follow social benefit / need
Failure of aspirational wish fulfillment
Failure of the credential system supplied by colleges and universities
Logical fallacies in the credentialing system
The hidden cost of compliance for business and the immense anger around this
Hiring someone isn't just about paying their wage.
Acronyms, sayings and catch phrases intended to guide a social behaviour but now limiting society
How far do we take them?
Influence of technology and innovation on existing job opportunities.
Displacement Theory
Aspirations changing over time.
Efficiency taken too far has social consequences
Total efficiency is total robots - do we want this?
Jobs = Personal purpose
Art in your work
Proposed Politify Projects:
The following is a list of projects proposed during the meeting. They are projects proposed either by inspiration from the video, inspired by discussion or proposed independently by attentdees.
- Bumper Bonanza Sale - Raising money for the final stage of Politify.org platform development - See the News and Articles Section of Politify.org
- The Legal Purpose Initiative - All laws have a purpose. All laws need to be connected back to a social benefit. If they are not then they must be considered authoritarian in nature and they need to be removed. - See the News and Articles Section of Politify.org
- Self Improvement As a National Ambition - Create a national Self Improvement Day - See the News and Articles Section of Politify.org - Consider learnings from the R U OK Day
- The Socratic Web - The solution to Fake News, Story Telling and Misinformation - See the News and Articles Section of Politify.org
- Altruism First - Creating economic systems that support and encourage social benefit as a priority - Leveraging the social decision making systems of the Politify.org platform - Currently no literature
- Farmer's Growth - A Food Abundance Project - Leveraging the economic systems proposed for the Altruism First project, we build protections for farmers and growers of food - Currently no literature
- Negative Rent - A proposal to allow house the most vulnerable people in our society by allowing them to be caretakers of liability and dromant properties - See the article by Chris Caston It is time to re-imagine how we live.
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