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This is what over 40 years of gutting education and social safety nets bought us. Idiocracy is coming!
by QAPereo 9y ago
This is what over 40 years of gutting education and social safety nets bought us. Idiocracy is coming!
- TheAdamAndChe 9y agoNo, this is what happens when employers show their workers absolutely no loyalty over decades. If people have no reason to care about their job, they won't care about it. The labor market is tight enough so that they can't just fire everyone who behaves like that, otherwise everyone would quit.
- QAPereo 9y agoThat’s a factor, but the collective dumbing down is as well. We now have a nearly feral workforce and body politic, because contrary to expectations, they’re unpredictable and hard to control.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y ago> the collective dumbing down is as well Graduation rates are are higher than ever. Over 30% of people have Bachelors degrees or higher. Literacy rates are higher than they ever have been. Our people aren't dumber, they just realize that when the business managers and owners are making millions while they don't get wage increases above inflation, they have no incentive to care.
- QAPereo 9y agoGraduation rates are are higher than ever. Producing it seems, graduates unfit for basic employment according to previous posters. Quantity is clearly not quality.
- dang 9y agoWould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News, especially on divisive topics? We eventually ban accounts that do this repeatedly and we've had to ask you before.
- QAPereo 9y agoBans on this site? Full of people who roll their own VPNs and so on? I’m sure that’s highly productive.