Not sure what throwing coal in a furnace has to do with the mental exertion required to be a programmer, but maybe the point of being persistent makes sense.
I'm currently in the process of moving my family (including 6 kids) from a 1/3 acre lot in Utah (there really isn't much land here because it's a desert) to a 15-acre farm in Tennessee for these reasons exactly.
Maybe you're just being sarcastic with the reinstitution of slavery remark?
If not, I'm interested in knowing how the idea of promoting racism and slavery could be connected to anything in this article.
I'm the author of this article on homeschooling, and I don't even recall having a thought about racism, slavery, etc. while writing the article.
If the idea is that anyone who respects and reveres the Founding Fathers must be racist, I don't see the connection, although I have seen enough revisionist historical writings that falsely paint them in a poor light (including making all of them racists because they allowed slavery) to discredit the system they set up.
For some examples of how modern historians have changed our view of the Founders, I'd recommend reading "The Jefferson Lies" by David Barton.
A few observations about this "will the traditional college survive" situation, which I've been following for a long time.
The higher education market feels a bit like the healthcare market in that it's somewhat difficult for the consumer to tell what the actual cost will be prior to purchasing the product. Published tuition rates and other costs of attending school feel like they're abstracted until a long-term commitment has been made and it's too late to get a refund.
It may seem strange that, with the increasing debt being amassed by universities, record-breaking new salaries are being offered by many of these schools to football and basketball coaches. The 25 salaries for college football coaches range from $3.5M to over $11M per year. I'd assume that in each of those cases, the value received from the coaching hire contributes overall to the school's bottom line.
As much of the same information that is taught in college becomes more accessible for free on the internet, it's hard to see how colleges can compete with smaller, more agile competitors who don't have nearly the overhead that universities do. It feels a bit like retail stores trying to compete with Amazon.
This type of abuse happens with almost any kind of media platform.
Google for a long time was losing the battle with people gaming their search engine until they invested a ton of effort (around 2011) into shutting down the fakes, many of whom still succeed, but not enough to send people fleeing for Bing.
I suspect Instagram has shutting these bot accounts down as a top priority.
If Benjamin Franklin were unfaithful to his wife (he claimed near the end of his life that he wasn't), it would make him a hypocrite and dishonest.
Sexual promiscuity was a serious thing in the United States until the 1960s. The lack of regard modern society has for being faithful doesn't diminish the importance of Benjamin Franklin being faithful to his wife.
The character of Benjamin Franklin is actually something that has some significance for me and my family. I named one of my boys after him. As a Latter-day Saint who believes that having a high commitment to sexual morality is integral to one's character, when my wife and I picked the name for our son, we were concerned about rumors we'd heard about the character of Benjamin Franklin, so we did extensive research.
I read through dozens of articles that had reached with confidence the conclusion that Benjamin Franklin was a ladies' man and sexually promiscuous, but I didn't find anything in his (nor among his contemporaries) letters and other communication with women in France or elsewhere that would lead to that conclusion except when authors made big leaps logically and inserted lots of their own bias.
One of quotes I found as I was researching Benjamin Franklin was this one from Ezra Taft Benson:
When one casts doubt about the character of these noble sons of God, I believe he or she will have to answer to the God of heaven for it.