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Much of it is a backlash against the conflation of anointment by organs of prestige with "merit"; at best, these prestige organs are very noisy proxies for some

• Viliam1234 6y ago
  Educated people usually underestimate how much "having a university diploma" correlates with social class more than with being smart and diligent. For example, in my country, university education is free, but it still means your parents need to pay for your food, travel, and accommodation. Guess what, poor people can't afford that; they need to start making money when they are 18. On the other hand, for relatively stupid people from middle class families, there are safe choices of a university where they will probably succeed. -- And I don't think any of this is difficult to understand. Yet people around me insist that having a university diploma is a measure of intelligence and hard work. (It is especially ironic with the politically correct ones. What is your opinion about people who treat poor minorities with contempt? Absolutely reprehensible! Oh, and what is your opinion about people who don't have a university education? Lazy losers, they deserve what they got! Hey, and you do realize that most members of the poor minorities actually don't have a university education, so you do in fact treat them with contempt? Uhm, that's completely different! Yeah, I am pretty sure they will be happy to hear that the reason they can't get a good job is not the circumstances of their birth, but rather the predictable consequences of the circumstances of their birth.)