@O’Shaunal  
You forgot about getting blackout drunk at frat parties. That is the most important part. You only end up going REEEEE about those spooky SJWs if you’re too lame to get wasted every weekend and too stupid to graduate cum laude.

Granted, everything I stated is part of long-term plan. However, I’m fully aware most countries, especially America, are governed by appointees too stupid to understand the path to progress is gradual and requires a great deal of attention.
 
I’d like to believe my proposal for a Step One will become reality sometime after I die and hopefully before humanity kills itself. XD

Having to waste tens of thousands of dollars and years of your life on what amounts to a glorified aptitude test with a side-course of Social-Justice inculcation—all while fueling the next bubble—seems pretty terrible to me.

You have a strange definition of terror there miss sparkle/sombra

@Genevamode  
Well that doesn’t seem so bad.

@Genevamode  
Yeah, America’s military budget is and has long been needlessly excessive, if it wasn’t already indicated by the level of tech available after the second war. Which subsequently ties into the thing about their education budget, which I’ve been assuming is one of several indirect causes for a society full of barely literate, unpredictable people who don’t particularly like each other.
 
Also subsequently again tying into said citizens being prime candidates to join the military and randomly kill civilians oversees. Not to say those two things are connected. Having more grunts because of a lackluster education system feels more coincidental than not, but I’d hazard those sorts of things lead into the reasons and motivations to justify the military’s budget. :T

@thps48  
If I’m not mistaken, isn’t the US military budget actually one of the smaller pieces of public spending? I believe education is actually one of the highest.
 
Correction: never mind. According to this chart it’s one of the larger pieces.
 

@O’Shaunal  
Yeah, that’s also another part of the century-or-so long transitionary phase. >w<

@thps48  
We’re going to need that military budget to cull or exile all the now-useless people who are too unintelligent for high-skill work.
 
ETA: Jk, they shouldn’t be much of a threat.

@Genevamode  
Machines that both replace minimum wage jobs for humans and work would likely be preceded by a really fucking long string of other events. Not excluding the twenty fucking years before those college engineers and/or scientists become experienced enough to invent what-have-you. While we’re being rhetorical, I’d like to think carting 70% of the military’s ludicrous budget into the education system to boost the efficiency of K12 schools might Domino Effect into the aforementioned other stuff. :3

@Genevamode  
Right, but none of that helps to make a Judge Dredd-esque dystopia arise within my lifetime.

@O’Shaunal  
Law usually only acts as a deterrent. Once someone has decided to do something, usually the police don’t get there in time. There’s an old saying: When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
 
Not only that, but all laws do is suppress behaviour; they don’t actually address the root causes leading to such behaviour.

@Genevamode  

@thps48  

 
Some questions:  
Who maintains the machines, and how do you motivate them without upsetting everyone else?  
What measures would you suggest be taken to prevent hacking?  
How will you stop people from getting depressed and/or becoming destructive with all this newfound free-time they don’t know what to do with?  
Who will own the machines, and how will their use be regulated?  
If the answer is that the government owns the machines, how do you reconcile giving government almost total economic power with increasing freedoms? What incentive would said government have to listen to the population instead of simply breaking all its rules and becoming tyrannical?

@thps48  
When you go to free college, I recommend you study economics first.

Necroing; who cares; wouldn’t everyone in the first world being able to go to college for free result in an increase in machines and automations that do the minimum wage jobs humans no longer need to do so that those college educated humans can focus on shit like going into space or whatever? <w<

No! You monster!

Twilight pls, you’re supposed to be smart…wait

Terror of free higher education? where i’m from, this is reality.
 

@Horsesass  
I haven’t gone to college either, so I’m not badmouthing people who didn’t go. Sorry if it sounded like it. Sometimes when I try to be impartial, it sounds like I’m being judgemental.

@Eeveeinheat  
Sorry. You kinda touched a nerve there.

@Horsesass  
Did you read my next comment? Because I explained further that all college does is make it more likely that you’ll get a job that affects society more than if you didn’t. I never said it was a given.

@Eeveeinheat  
I didn’t go to college.  
I’ve spent the last week working on the new MRI room of the VA Hospital.  
Before that, I helped build a school.  
The job before that was a restoration of a historical landmark building.
 
A person’s contribution to society isn’t defined by their tax bracket.

@Background Pony #A0B2  
I think Genevamode is more talking about the, ah, unscientific sub-category of psychology. Namely gender studies and some behavioral sciences that are dubious at best.

@Genevamode  
@Eeveeinheat
 
Isn’t Psychology kind of important though? I though that was essential for mental health related fields.