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Birth rates are predicted to keep going down though, meaning the supply of immigrants will dry up anyway.

Looks like the links in the second paragraph are examples or perhaps origins of the myths he is attacking.

The topic is apparently his phd thesis.

You need ID to get that job flipping burgers. Two forms of it for the I-9. Though not proof of residency perhaps.

Once you have the job you can use the paycheck as proof of residency.

They have actuaries to make sure they get their profit margin either way. Healthy insurance customers just make sick insurance customers happier since the price goes down.

Yeah but I'm guessing you wouldn't be willing to pay them that now.

Their point was the high risk versus the high reward. Even if investors gave such money to thousands of longevity startups, would they produce something that makes all the investing pay off better than what they sunk into them? (without pivoting to something other than longevity).

It's junior high. But with grown adults doing the teasing and bullying.

If you put slower kids into (legitimately) accelerated programs they just get left behind and do even worse. When you separate children into classes that proceed at different rates based on how fast they learn, everyone is actually getting their own "special classes".

Meanwhile if you try to handicap parents who care, to bring their children to the level of parents who don't care, they just take their children out of the system and put them in private schools. Except of course for the poor gifted kids stuck in public school, ironically, who you wanted to help.

Maybe it's just your points idea that's not very good. If you were punished with traffic school and just ignored it they can still increase penalities and eventually come arrest you. Unless your plan involves hiding out in the mountains somewhere or something.

Laws aren't only for punishing people who have something to seize. How else do we deal with people who have no money but still commit minor infractions?

Just eliminate fines altogether and give some more appropriate punishment like traffic school (which must also be free...)

I think the poster was generally referring to the fact that students who progress at a faster rate will have an advantage by simple virtue of having covered more material in school. They will be more preferred by colleges which leads to being more preferred for jobs. Basically a "rich get richer" effect.

Of course the idea that this is a bad thing (as opposed to being exactly how a merit-based system is supposed to work) is based on presupposing that higher performance was the result of unfair discrimination in the first place.

Are you sure that isn't what you are doing by refusing to consider the specifics of critics' complaints?

Woke policies have a societal/political agenda in terms of ethnic and other favored groups. That is by definition tribal thinking.

The issue with gifted children isn't about indoctrinating them to whatever beliefs. It's the destructive belief that high academic achievement is the result of some unfair "privilege" which they seek to counter by limiting opportunities for advancement.

That sounds to me like you're conceding it is true but you just don't like the way I worded it. Which is horrifying.

But are you saying they don't even want to offer calculus in high school now? Holy crap, that is also horrifying.

so the alternatives are: A. lifetime benefits from being challenged up to their real potential during their most-formative years, versus alternative B. being cooler for a few years during puberty when being different is a bad thing.

The standard is no undue burden. That does not cover minor hassles like paperwork. Unless you're claiming it's some kind of language issue.