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Originally Posted by Inso0
Holy condescension, Batman!
With friends like you on their side, who needs enemies?
Pack it in, boys. We're poor, there's nothing more we can do. Just sit here and wait to be shot by a cop or an unstable neighbor. No, Johnny, you don't have to go to school today. Nothing matters until UBI and MFA are implemented.
you can choose to view things however you wish but you won't be able to solve it while ignoring cultural factors, only difference of me and those i grew up surrounded by was the education level of my parents and in fact many of them made far more money than my parents did but they glamorized white collar professions and had very incorrect assumptions because they weren't working primarily with their hands like most of my friends parents were doing then clearly my parents must have been making bank - all this despite how infamously underpaid teachers are
it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if in my childhood i spent more time hanging out in trailers, yards full of rusting cars, and people who say they are going to the job site rather than the office than most of the thread combined - i'm not being condescending, i have no issue with blue collar people, i actually take quite a lot of pride in the manual labor jobs i worked as a kid and feel it's definitely helped give me some good character - but i still firmly believe that most people "trying to solve poverty" have never really spent any time with poor people and fundamentally do not understand the culutral divide - they just assume they do because they've seen a few episodes of Roseanne
people fail to understand that even if we made eduation free (which i fully believe we should) only a small handful of these people who didn't go to college but rather took an apprenticeship would then have gone to college - the cost of education was never really a factor in their genuine belief that college was for yuppies
also, we will always need people to do these jobs - if everyone went to college we'd have people with advanced degrees pumping gas and washing dishes, i'm not against that concept, i think we'd have a much healthier society if the general education level rose to that extent - but making college universal is not going to magically make blue collar careers disapear and become redundant - it doesn't magically make us into a post-scarcity star trek society
Last edited by rickroll; 04-27-2022 at 02:01 PM.