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I agree about the signifier, but still think education has a real value outside the pure signalling. You need experts and for that you need schools/colleges bec
by oezi 5y ago
I agree about the signifier, but still think education has a real value outside the pure signalling. You need experts and for that you need schools/colleges because in most jobs you will not learn wide enough nor deep enough (exceptions are possible).
- wyager 5y agoYes, you need experts, but the people who are going to really benefit from expert-level training were probably already going to go to college anyway. Doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc are part of the upper class in one way or another.
- oblio 5y agoA huge chunk of "doctors, lawyers, scientists" come from the middle class or lower, though.
- wyager 5y agoYes, class mobility exists and is significant. A large fraction of high-intelligence people (which is a massive causal predictor of high class) come from parents of middling intelligence and class, just as a consequence of the ratio of generational intelligence drift to the width of the population intelligence distribution.