I also really dont like the "what if you had to give away some of your grade to the dumb students?" and its implication that education is worthless unless certain people are "losers" of the system
Ironically, I never felt the drive to apply myself in high school because the way curves work, if i got on the honor roll i would just be kicking someone else off of it, which seemed net neutral at best
the education system is peak fuckin capitalism lmao
they spend our entire youth instilling peak Randian individualist drivel and making a system where to succeed you just have to work really hard while ignoring everyone else
and then in the last five seconds they're like "oh fuck, isn't 99.9% of actual work communal group projects???" and shove groups of socially inept youth together to do group work with zero experience to the point where group projects are despised in American schools because everyone is so focused on themselves and these groups inevitably go to shit because of that
i had a project management class where every fucking lesson was just "communicate and treat each other like human beings haha" because people literally needed to hear that
basically something something contradictions
I did all digital notes when I was in university and just gave read-only access to the cloud where I stored them for literally anybody who asked. Like word got around and people from other majors who took the same course where like "Hey you're the dude with the notes, right? Can I get access?" and I'm like "yeah sure leave me an e-mail."
Most people just greeted me friendly after that or bought me the occasional coffee when they were convinced they'd have flunked an exam otherwise, but there was just this sizeable minority of people asking why I don't want anything in return or fearing I'd retroactively force a deal on them. The whole Idea that I made those notes anyways for myself digitally and that it's 0 effort to give someone access to them didn't compute for them.
I went to university studying a rather reactionary field full of rich failsons, weird Ayn Rand nerds and God, King and Country dorks cosplaying as interwar members of the landed gentry. And everyone shared notes left right and centre, everyone helped each other make illegal copies of textbooks.
if their grade determines whether they get to eat tonight, I'd be a piece of shit not to
Also, it would incentivize working with other students and helping them learn too, which is actually a good thing
See, your first mistake was caring about other people. You weren't supposed to do that.
Also because Bill Gates pushes for testing standards so he can sell test taking software.
All liberal theory is ridiculous thought experiments divorced from reality. "What if two people were living on a deserted island, one of them had a unicorn and the rate of interest was constant?"
Lol speaking of lemonade stands my local news had a feel good story about a couple of little girls' lemonade stand. Their dad paid for a city food stand license and for a supplier for the lemonade or something. It's so bizarre to cover it as an enterprising way to earn some extra pocket money when the start up cost is probably north of $10k.
libs are way more obscurantist than that nowadays, they even have "pilosophers" like Nozick and such
and why does all the lib shit rely on assuming you'r ea child?
wait, stupid question.
Sorry I made it really quickly on a bad app, after posting i realized that it was hard to read but it was too late :/
Leftist theory : "North Korea deserves our support despite being a repressive corrupt dictatorship because they have communist aesthetics"
Yeah that’s why people support North Korea. They really love empty communist aesthetics. Not because they have a command economy or democratic centralism or are besieged by Western powers after attempted genocide against them.
They don’t even really have communist aesthetics anymore, they talk more about Juche than Marxism-Leninism, and I haven’t seen them carry a portrait of Lenin or Marx at a military parade since Kim Jong-il was in charge.
Command economy =/= socialism. They don't even have a proper functioning command economy like the USSR, they are mostly liberalized. They are a capitalist country with nationalized businesses and a massive private black market. It's purely their aesthetics that attracts Western leftist support. No western leftist actually wants to implement the policies that NK implements.
Never said a command economy was socialist. But many Leninists support command economies as a transitional system to socialism, and since NK has a command economy, they support NK. Also they never “mostly liberalized”, attempts at liberalization within the special economic zones were largely failures. Most of the economy is state-owned.
You’re trying to come up with some weird logic as to why people disagree with you about NK. I’ll tell you now: people don’t disagree with you because they’re all fake radlib aesthetic-loving PMC idpol Western leftist red fascist authoritarian tankies.
They are moving on the path to liberalization, which is a good thing because they are ass at running a command economy. Their standard of living has improved since liberalization.
Okay but they aren’t completely liberalized, which was my point
duhhh you claim to like state ownership of the MOP and yet this non-socialist county does that !
This is the weirdest point that people bring up. Yeah no shit a state isn’t socialist because the government runs everything, but anyone with a brain can comprehend that nationalized industry is vastly preferable to private companies. Notice how the USSR didn’t experience the Great Depression? How they ensured food, housing, and healthcare for more of their population than Russia today? It’s not explicitly socialist, but any socialist should favor command economies over private ones. Like if France just privatized their railways and public utilities tomorrow I would hope that you would recognize that that’s a bad thing
anything anti-america is good
Sorry that people hate your country, but America in the last 50 years has invaded, slaughtered, raped, and murdered more innocent people than any other contemporary great power. Opposing America by supporting a lesser evil, like China or NK, is a perfectly fine position to have. If America collapsed tomorrow, socialism would be easier to achieve. Even third-world social democracies like Bolivia would be safer without threat of a CIA coup. Sounds like you’re just a mad ameriburger
It’s funny how “critical support” actually means “unconditional support” for idiots like you. Like is nothing about NK above reproach? The massive corruption, repression, mismanaged economy, hyper-nationalism. Is that all fine by you?
You’re doing exactly what I was talking about in the last paragraph of my last post lol. No, I’m not disagreeing with you on NK because I’m a North Korean nazi who thinks the country is literally perfect. Of course there is corruption, nationalism, whatever. I just like their economic system, or at least the concept of it, and I want to see it applied to other countries. Especially if we can do it with computers
Of course there is corruption, nationalism, whatever. I just like their economic system, or at least the concept of it,
Then I'm not talking about people like you. I'm talking about literal dogmatic North Korea lovers who refuse to listen to any criticism about it.
Leftist theory : Hating North Korea means you love South Korea.
Idk what do you think should happen to North Korea? Imo the country gets supported or it becomes part of South Korea
It becomes part of a country that is 20 times wealthier than it? Oh the horror
lmao, "stupid commies, North Korea isn't communist!" "So what if they become part of a US puppet capitalist country?"
It's clear you have no idea what you're talking about. Korean unification is a long term goal of both countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_reunification
I'm a communist, you're not if you think NK is some model we should follow. In fact, no Western leftist actually takes NK as a model, their "support" is purely based on aesthetics and completely misguided geopolitics. NK is already a capitalist country, joining SK doesnt require removing their sovereignity, at least they would drop their mismanaged command economy and enjoy some economic development.
So wait, they have a command economy but are also a capitalist country? And where are their capitalists? 🤣
The state performs the role of the capitalist for the large firms. They also have SEZs with foreign investment, they have a huge black market, and they also have many self-employed people. Quite a few of their businesses are state-run in writing but actually ran as private businesses. They also suffer from massive corruption all around.
Capitalism is not just markets and private ownership, the fundamental element in capitalism is commodity production. This is one of the key findings of Marx. It is a Stalinist revisionism that you can have "socialist commodity production".
