The problem they found is that teaching people to read and do math is a gateway to understanding things like history, the economy, labor laws, etc. I think we've reached a stage where they would rather make the jobs easier to do for illiterate people than risk class consciousness growing any more than it has.

Couple that with the rollback of child labor laws and you can see the future we're heading toward.

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Idk dude. Everyone here is constantly talking about how public schools are basically propaganda centers that also teach some basic job training skill, and how much as the right may claim otherwise most universities just pump out STEM fascists or social studies PMC Libs who go onto either be middle managers or NYT op Ed writers. I know plenty of well educated people and most of them aren't comrades, meanwhile socialist revolutions have taken off in places where most of the population was illiterate. Class consciousness is the west has always been fucking abysmal, even when the west had better educational standards.

I think a lot of this is just Christo-fash who want to regress back to a plantation economy so they can get away with molesting their own daughters more.

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that tracks. Fucking hate this place. Death to America