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I don't know to what degree automation was involved, but we also spent the last 60+ years socially devaluing jobs that don't require a college degree. My grand
by aidenn0 4y ago
I don't know to what degree automation was involved, but we also spent the last 60+ years socially devaluing jobs that don't require a college degree.
My grandfather is about as smart as I am, but he never went to college (nor did well over 90% of his cohort). Now about half the population goes to college, and more than a third graduate.
That's a massive transformation in two generations, and its exacerbated by the degree to which it segregates. I've never eaten lunch with an adult, my age or younger, who didn't attend college.
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- HDThoreaun 4y ago> I've never eaten lunch with an adult, my age or younger, who didn't attend college https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin... It is completely wild to me how effectively society has self segregated to the point of just straight up never, not even once, interacting with the other group without even realizing it.
- aidenn0 4y agoThe college thing is a much bigger divide than politics for my friend group. My wife is about as blue-tribe as you can get. My best-man is pretty darn red tribe (and not Mitt Romney red-tribe, but "likely to vote for Trump in the next Republican primary" red-tribe). They both have college degrees though. I have a few friends who dropped out of college, but none that never attended.