Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.

I can't help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.

Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright yea

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    If workers become illiterate and lose access to the ability to reproduce society thats game over,

    Kinda reminds me of slavery but in reverse

    Instead of enslaved people becoming increasingly educated and more demanding of freedom, free people become increasingly illiterate and closer to a slave-like status