Question 3:

A) Why is education level such a strong variable in a typical worker’s human capital earnings function and the age–earnings profile? How might the human capital investment (the dominant) view contrast to the screening, signaling and ability hypotheses (to explain the connection of education to earnings)?

B) What is the "college/high school earnings premium"? How has this altered the human capital investment decision of individuals who are weighing the potential, long-run benefits vs. costs of higher education? How might it alter a college student's choice to work (or not) at a paid job WHILE they are enrolled in college (classes)?

C) Which side has more incentive to make the often costly, up-front investments in firm-specific vs. industry-specific vs. general training? Why? Provide a concrete example of each type of training.

1. Explain, in your own words, what Thomson means when she claims that “Being a good K is being good qua K.”

2. According to Thomson, what is a “goodness-fixing kind”?

3. According to Thomson, what is a “function kind”? Are function kinds “goodness-fixing kinds”? Why or why not?

4. According to Thomson, what is a “natural kind” (i.e. a “non-function kind” like “beefsteak tomato” and “tiger”)? Are natural kinds “goodness-fixing kinds?” Why or why not?

5. According to Thomson, why is being physically fit sufficient to call a tiger a “good tiger”?

6. According to Thomson, why is being physically fit not sufficient to call a human being a “good human being”?

7. According to Aristotle, what is the characteristic activity of good human persons? Explain, in detail, how he reaches this conclusion and how his argument resembles Thomson’s.

The first video below contains some famous claims and comments stemming from Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX (and one of the founders of PayPal, some time ago) -- and Stephen Hawking, and others. What do these observations have to do with ethics? The question is how we address the impact of technology on jobs, on human behavior, and even the meaning of human life. Be sure to check these out! Then make comments on your responses with regard to how human beings should respond, adapt, or prepare for these changes. It's probably that we can't go 'backwards'; how do we come to terms with what... 'we' have wrought!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs_HhZrCBdg&t=15s

Nick Bostrom, "What Happens When our Computers get Smarter than We Are?"

https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_bostrom_what_happens_when_our_computers_get_smarter_than_we_are?referrer=playlist-talks_on_artificial_intelligen#t-612076

Human blood contains a buffering system. What are the key molecules in this buffer, and why is it necessary?

What are the various routes by which transmission of human immune deficiency virus takes place?

describe the key features of Inherited genetic conditions what they do actually to the human being?