I'm really interested in these kinds of ideas and I appreciate you taking the time to write. My mind is flooded with questions - how would someone accept a posting without risking their career... do you lose your employer covered healthcare when taking an assignment? how many hours / week do you expect an assignment like this would take? it seems like you would have to set the 'floor' for education at HS diploma since that's all that's guaranteed via US education system... would definitely incentivize us as a culture to make higher education mandatory or at least available.
Related, but not the same, I've always thought that some form of mandatory civil service should be required for all citizens at age 18 (or at the time of gaining citizenship), you can decide the type of work, but not the location, so we force the mixing of our cultures more aggressively. Maybe this is also the time of your life when you get your post-HS education...?
Sorry for the rambling comments... subscribing to your stack, this is a really interesting topic and i've thought lately that we could do with major rethinking of our social infrastructure. We need to move past -isms and left and right and blue and red, start really thinking about our future and how we're going to make something that the majority of us can actual support and engage with.
Worth experimenting with. I just finished this book on meritocracy - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374289980/thetyrannyofmerit/. Sharing for further insight in case you haven't read it. Working backwards from all of the principle points a lottery is the working example for admittance to higher educational institutions used in the book.
Really well said. Great article.
I'm really interested in these kinds of ideas and I appreciate you taking the time to write. My mind is flooded with questions - how would someone accept a posting without risking their career... do you lose your employer covered healthcare when taking an assignment? how many hours / week do you expect an assignment like this would take? it seems like you would have to set the 'floor' for education at HS diploma since that's all that's guaranteed via US education system... would definitely incentivize us as a culture to make higher education mandatory or at least available.
Related, but not the same, I've always thought that some form of mandatory civil service should be required for all citizens at age 18 (or at the time of gaining citizenship), you can decide the type of work, but not the location, so we force the mixing of our cultures more aggressively. Maybe this is also the time of your life when you get your post-HS education...?
Sorry for the rambling comments... subscribing to your stack, this is a really interesting topic and i've thought lately that we could do with major rethinking of our social infrastructure. We need to move past -isms and left and right and blue and red, start really thinking about our future and how we're going to make something that the majority of us can actual support and engage with.
Thanks for writing this. This is something we should be testing across the US.
Worth experimenting with. I just finished this book on meritocracy - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374289980/thetyrannyofmerit/. Sharing for further insight in case you haven't read it. Working backwards from all of the principle points a lottery is the working example for admittance to higher educational institutions used in the book.