[ExI] reasonable what ifs

[SR Ballard]

What does summer slide have to do with online learning? The best recommendation given for parents is just to keep kids using their skills over the summer — via online games or exercises for example.

SR Ballard

> On Apr 8, 2020, at 11:44 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> My wife and I feel really protected:  Medicare is not going under; my pension is not going under; I have no debt other than a mortgage.  It would take massive changes in our economy to alter any of that.  I do feel for people who are out of work.  In other countries,like Britain, people who are off are guaranteed their jobs back.  Not here.
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> BTW - online learning doesn't work well according to an article in the Washington Post.  Over summer students lose large percentages of their math skills, for one - called summer slide.  
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> bill w
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>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:28 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> > On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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>> >>…What I am doing is envisioning a new normal where people generally don’t do the high-luxury stuff nearly as much…spike
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>> >…Lotsa luck getting people to lower their standards of living voluntarily.  What you describe would appear to most folks as what went on in the Depression (which was far worse, but they don't know that).  If people can afford luxuries, they will buy them - ditto all the other things you mention.
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>> Most people out there are not minimalists like you , Spike.
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>> bill w
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>> Of course.  I am not suggesting any form of personal austerity would be voluntary.  I am envisioning people who once worked in businesses much more in demand (higher end restaurants for instance) transitioning in to fill a much greater need that pays less (boxing groceries for delivery.)
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>> Perhaps one of the biggest transitions will be dependent on one’s debt load.  I have always considered it a very bad idea to carry debt beyond what is necessary.  Carrying debt bets on the future being like the past.  That works, right up until it suddenly doesn’t.  But the lender still wants and fully expects her regular payment in full on time even if your salary suddenly dropped to half what it was before.
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