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This is a response to the Marc Andreesen article I cited here yesterday. "I actually agree that education in America is in a bad place but we're in a crisis. And even if we weren't this isn't a problem of building. It's a problem of leadership, policy and bureaucracy... It's a really hard and long term problem that is rarely solved by budgets and technology alone." I would also link to Andrew Yang but it's behind a paywall, so I'll just quote him here: "our biggest problems generally don't have market-based solutions and the true solutions often aren't aligned with profit maximizing activities the way they are currently defined." (Source). This is a problem I've run up against my entire career: you can't get companies to support projects that don't improve their bottom live, even if the project produces a broad social benefit.

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