J. Nathan Matias 🦣 on Nostr: Where are you finding hope today? Today, my class discussed public goods with network ...

Where are you finding hope today? Today, my class discussed public goods with network effects — goods that don't exclude people and that benefit everyone as more people access them. One of those things is education.

When my mother was born in the 1940s, around 70% of Americans over 25 didn't have a high school education. Now over 90% have finished high school.

That's an extraordinary expansion in human capability in a very short time period.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/time-series/demo/cps-historical-time-series.html