For a while now I’ve wondered if I’ve fallen into the trap of simply talking about taking notes instead of producing something with them, outside of links to talking about taking notes. This year my big writing goal is to focus on writing a book that’s been collecting ideas for the last year.

The basic idea is that, we don’t really care about the children. Sure politicians use the idea as a boogey man to scare people and reduce encryption, but if they really cared about the children, there are so many other things they’d do than make sure we can’t own our data.

Below is my starting point outline with resources I need to read. If you have any suggestions I’d love to hear them. This is by no means very organized yet, it’s simply a starting point for research.

Not all my weekly research notes will focus on this topic, but expect to see the books below crop up.

Research

School

  • we'd pay teachers more if they're truly educating our most precious resource

to give them the time to mark

  • instead the United States spends how much per capita on the military

  • we wouldn't be sending homework home

it's simply teaching children that they should give a day of work, then work after work because they're too overloaded and must work later unpaid

this is something employers like, but no employe likes it

  • school would start later from grade 7 to University because it would match the sleep patterns of kids

see When

  • we would do something about guns instead of surveillance failure being fixed with more surveillance

Tech won't save us

  • COVID Response

that study that includes bonnie henry

  • Kids that have less working knowledge (facts) will continue to get further behind

      	[Why Don't Students Like School? - Daniel T Willingham](https://amzn.to/3jXWLvw)

  	- so children from less well-off homes will come into school behind and get further behind due to lack of experience meaning they retain less each time.

  	- if we cared about "the kids" we'd enable parents to take kids to museums, have books, ....without cost because we really cared about the outcomes of kids

  	- Read [Unequal Childhoods - Annette Lareau](https://amzn.to/3ZfMfQu) for even more



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Health Care

  • free dental

  • free healthcare

free dental care and free healthcare reduce the burden on society later due to better health

  • if society was about making people's lives better then this is what we'd do, instead capitalism is about extracting maximum profit out of people

Environment

  • how would we change what we use in the environment if we cared about the generations that are coming after us?

electric cars are still cars and use enormous amounts of battery chemicals and we have no clear recycling program for them yet

  • are they really better?

  • would we revise the way we build cities to reduce emissions from driving

  • make public transit more available

don't dive into tech billionaire dreams: https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-traffic-11669658396

Infrastructure

Car Design

  • those bumpers that you can barely see an adult over

  • we don't take into account the safety of those outside of the vehicle

Family Supports

  • the United States would have parental leave

Basic Income