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> I wonder what is a more valuable skill, learning to enjoy music/literature or learning how the world works + html? You're missing something huge here - how d
by alexb_ 3y ago
> I wonder what is a more valuable skill, learning to enjoy music/literature or learning how the world works + html?
You're missing something huge here - how does the world change if it worked like this?
Immediately, there becomes an incentive for children to do as much productive work as possible. Immediately, you create a world where companies that are able to use child labor are able to make things much, much cheaper, and win out economically. Immediately, you create products and services which are reliant on the labor of children.
It's not about the actual worth of education, it's about what is incentivized and how that impacts society as a whole. If you don't believe me, look at prison labor - the exact same thing happens there.
- resource_waste 3y agoThis actually sounds great. We might enter into a golden age.
- AlexandrB 3y agoConsider that we got to our current age by having a well-educated populace and that developing countries are copying this model to improve their economic prosperity as well. Rolling that back doesn't seem like it will lead to a golden age.
- resource_waste 3y agoWhere was the proposal to roll it back? The proposal was to eliminate entertainment education and replace it with real world skills.
- tremon 3y agoYou know what defines a "golden age"? A flourishing of the arts and sciences. I've never heard anyone associate that term with an abundance of manual labor, or "real world skills" as you put it.
- resource_waste 3y agoChange the topic after defeat?