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Jul 9Liked by Maxim Benjamin Smith

I've self hypothesized the same idea so it's interesting and good to see you guys coming to the same conclusion. It's really an observation of - world class education is all present on the internet. I've professionally self educated for a demanding career for 2 decades, successfully, and made millions in income. Going to university sets you back 3 years of earning, resets your starting line in the race back a few hundred k. Also your peers may be up 100k in invested assets. With inflation the compounding effect of 200k delta between an indebted university goer and a worker with 100k saved will magnify over a lifetime. Plus Ive never been asked not have I ever asked anyone for their degree when hiring them. I'm on course to make my children avoid university

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You should look seriously at a course in lock smithing and spend time with the videos of the locksmithing lawyer and a few others. Your discussion of the Count of Monte Cristo led me to this suggestion. Both Dantes and the Stephen King character Andy Dufresne were innocent men in prison who spent time every 24 hours doing some work on escape. Long ago I understood that any technology one person can devise, another can learn. So any system for keeping you restrained can be overcome. And it seems to come up in the lives of many "great men" that escape skills would come in handy.

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