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Companies get lower cost, higher output labor, for free. The money flows upward, enslaving the middle class with obscene debts trying to compete for prized jobs
by newbamboo 5y ago
Companies get lower cost, higher output labor, for free. The money flows upward, enslaving the middle class with obscene debts trying to compete for prized jobs that used to require far less schooling. Meanwhile trust in authorities and institutions falls to new lows. I heard yesterday that 50% of populace now supports censorship, not of hate speech or anything like that, censorship of whatever popular opinion currently deems “misinformation.” Darwin, Newton, Galileo, all “misinformation” that benefitted from having far fewer gatekeepers than we do today. If this is what the democratizing force of higher education gives us, I’ll pass. We have more educated people and greater economic divide than ever before. The group with the greatest amount of “vaccine hesitancy” are those with phds! If that doesn’t scream elite overproduction you may be deaf.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago>Galileo Galileo was ordered to abandon heliocentrism by the Pope. Ultimately he was sentenced to prison for his views (commuted to house arrest). He had plenty of gatekeepers.
- newbamboo 5y agoThere were fewer “elites” then. You are agreeing with me without realizing it. We now have what amounts to millions of little popes — nothing more than school children with high credentials in mostly nonsensical fields calling for widespread excommunication of heretics from their privileged positions in government and social media. If Galileo lived today we would never know of his positions- he would be immediately deplatformed, entirely erased from the historical record. This is elite overproduction.
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago>You are agreeing with me without realizing it. No, I totally disagree with you and just pointed out the most obvious weakness in your argument.