When Learning Is Free: Job Allocation and the Education Bubble
When learning is free, the scarce thing is no longer knowledge — it is the job.— KORU turns education from selling diplomas into allocating jobs and rebuilding the network.
One of the key cores is job vacancies — how positions are allocated matters enormously. As the barrier to learning keeps dropping, the distribution of every kind of service has to become more balanced: job resources cannot all be concentrated in the big cities, and the types of jobs must be diverse — general doctors, surgical specialists, repair technicians, software roles, and so on — with verification-and-learning roles covered in step.
AI is mainly responsible for coordinating and scheduling this pool of job resources. Creative roles can be set up as well; in the early stage humans still operate the AI, and later it can gradually transition until it finally runs on its own.
In the end the whole system forms one complete pattern: it draws funds from the rich, then guides the poor to spend again, and uses that to drive the economy. First we have to be clear about one core concept: what is a poor person? A poor person is someone with no income at all. Give such a person 1,000 and they simply cannot hold on to it — they can't even keep 2 — because the poor already live in a state of consumption overdraft. That is what real poverty is.
Money flows upward in tiers. If society is divided into five layers, the funds of the bottom fourth and fifth layers flow up to the fourth layer; the fourth layer's spending then flows to the third; the third to the second; and finally up to the first. After that, everyone redistributes resources again on their own merits — that is a healthy economic cycle.
Right now education has become the biggest economic bubble. In the future the core of education will no longer be teaching alone; it will be responsible for allocating employment slots — making clear where each person is headed for work and where they will work. Future education leans more toward being a place to expand one's network, and that kind of networking and social scene will most likely happen online.