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~ exponential growth in economy and thesis |
David Suzuki makes a great point about our economy and goods system (production of shit and crap, i.e. christmas gifts for idiots on December 25th).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15mJEwcd...5mJEwcdrIA
An interesting idea would be to take David Suzuki's analogy to the bacteria eating each other in a test tube (cannibalism) and compare this to University Thesis production.
We have already had millions of university thesis created by students, so how can we possible come up with more? Wouldn't it be better to improve existing thesis work rather than come up with billions of new fresh ideas? Are millions of thesis works attempts of desperation and stolen property from other thesis? With so many university thesis available you'd think that eventually we'd have run out of ideas, maybe in year 1975 or 1980 after a million university students had already come up with a thesis.
i.e. how can the education system continually grow, exponentially, or even linearly, if millions of people were already working on that idea in 1975 or 1985? There is only so much thesis ideas that can be written about. The more years pass, the more and more difficult it is to come up with a thesis that someone hasn't already tackled 10 years ago. It's not as if a new student in 2016 is going to think up and idea that someone in year 2005 didn't already think of, especially in Physics, Biology, and sciences that are well mature. How many possible new thesis ideas can be written about a theory that has already been beaten to death? Do more and more students desperately and stressfully try to find a thesis, making the whole university system decline in value? I.e. if people eventually have to publish junk thesis since all the ideas have already written about, do our thesis become less and less valuable over time?
Except for fields that have new areas of research such as nano technology or quantum computing (and don't worry those will be thrashed soon too) what can you possibly write a thesis about without duplicating 80 percent of someone's already written work?
It's basically like showing up in the last 10 minutes of a hockey game and expecting to win it by scoring 5 goals in 10 minutes.... The game has already being going on for 2 periods and everyone has already found the holes in the net to score... you think you are going to come up with an original winning 5 goals in the last 10 minutes because you showed up with 80 percent of the game is finished?
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