keccers
@keccers.eth
Hear me out Compulsory education’s goal is to create a good worker You do not need much education or any second order thinking skills to - follow a road sign - memorize a shitcoin ticker - read TikTok captions - work on an assembly line - send emails - be swayed by an advertisement You do not need second order thinking for most jobs in our economy, and have not for my whole life I hazard And our education system is no longer producing good workers. 1/3 of all zoomers jobless, or so I read. How many of them went to college, carry debt and have no prospects? The situation is untenable. We have vastly overproduced elite aspirants per Turchin Especially with the AI age incipient why should the state pay for day care for teenagers. By 14 we will know who deserves the last knowledge jobs, they will be metered out by some combination of nepotism, family wealth and sheer brainpower. Laura Deming was admitted to MIT at 16 Letting the kids work seems better than saddling them with debt and false hope
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alex
@proxystudio.eth
we are really not gonna have that many families in the future, huh
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Royal
@royalaid.eth
I think this underestimates the flex that having underlyings provides. It's already a status symbol but if it becomes more scarce so will it's flex value. Additionally I think this also ignores legit nonsense job creation. It will be packaging up the same shit we already have but who would have thought a mid tier entertainer making niche science content would be a sustainable career path, but low and behold it is. Stuff is backsliding and the future feels like shit because there is a lot of legitimate downside potentially but as it gets worse the hope that propelled prior generations to build the literal miracles around us; the deaf can hear and blind can see, we can teleport around the world in a day, we conquered smallpox and can conquer TB; will propel us to rise to, and exceed, those heights. BUT it WILL be a hell of a bumpy ride along the way.
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Jimmy😼
@jimmynorules
What are your thoughts on how education systems can evolve to meet these challenges?
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grunt.eth
@grunt.eth
What about a functional democracy…
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Vivacious 🎩💎
@vivacious
Yeah, no matter how much I'd like to say, that it would be better if they somehow changed the education system or if they gave the parents more free time to raise their kids (a topic Bias was talking about a month or so back), I still think that allowing kids to work would at least give them expeience and they would probably learn to work, which is an important skill, that will help them later in life.
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Johan
@salbridius
Education should focus on developing critical thinking skills, not just on creating workers. Government funds could be better spent on technical/vocational training or apprenticeships
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Peter Ogilvie
@pogilvie
Best bet is to go to a trade school to be a plumber, electrician or carpenter.
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