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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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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keccers
@keccers.eth
I don’t disagree with any of this! At the end of the day, I really dislike the idea that a family is a luxury good or a marker of poverty, that kids belong at only the extremes of the barbell. Having kids is for some the only source of meaning they will ever have in their lives, it imbues a sense of purpose that is hard to come by otherwise. By making kids a luxury good we condemn many to a life of meaninglessness And of course the ingenious will always find a new way to make work. Attached is an example I saw of one recently. It’s an otherwise un credentialed ex-lawyer charging $250 a session to counsel other overpaid fake job havers about how to cope with fake pressures. 😂 I know too, that nothing is certain. I discuss the incipient AI age — but that very well may be nothing too, it assumes a lot to say that
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