The article is about how China is George Orwell 1984 and a trillion people died in the cultural revolution and purging bourgeois elements is bad.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      No, they were taught to read, then stopped after they left school because if it's not attached to some form of institutional prestige, it's clearly not worth learning. We should just have employment-based education, sorted early on so people can learn what they want to*

      *Or have to given economic circumstances.

      • please_just_stop [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Excellent take. I fucking hate vocational education personally. I was the worst procrastinator you've ever seen when I was a physics student. Then when I did engineering I basically didn't do any work at all and they kicked me out

        I am also kicked out of my parents' house sort of. Not allowed to just show up there without calling