Interesting Links for 10-02-2017
The Real Fight...Starts Now (Hilarious take on Corbyn)
(tags: politics satire )
We know what will make us happy, why do we watch TV instead?
(tags: happiness psychology tv )
Netflix Castlevania series penned by Warren Ellis
(tags: tv games netflix )
Scotland is retraining Syrian refugee doctors to work for the NHS
(tags: syria nhs refugee
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Once again, the author's libertarian biases (and perhaps more importantly, his libertarian culture) shows. There's a clear answer to some of this - vastly increased financialization. I obviously haven't researched all areas, but the increases in college and university costs are relatively simple - professors' salaries are roughly static, but the salaries of the top administrators have vastly increased, especially those of people expected to do fundraising. Gains from this for the colleges and universities are real but also far smaller than the salary increases, and thus costs go up. Something similar is happening with medicine, with both administration costs and the cost of drugs and devices, which are all driven by exceptionally wealthy people getting far wealthier off of the rest of us.
I'm uncertain what's happening with public schools, but suspect that external costs (books, and more recently computers and suchlike) have played a substantial role.
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I pretty much don't, these days. There isn't much spare time around the kids anyway. Of course, there's some incidental TV if it's on for the kids, but deliberately sitting down in front of the TV to watch something ? Almost never.
(this even includes failing to watch things that I've deliberately downloaded, even when I'm sitting next to the computer they're on ... )
Then again, I haven't finished reading any books this year either ... maybe it's just the kids & life around the kids taking up my time :)
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