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Have you ever been to a high school? Nobody is on equal footing, socially speaking. The authoritarian nature of high school is about the only communist thing ab
by wakawaka28 2y ago
Have you ever been to a high school? Nobody is on equal footing, socially speaking. The authoritarian nature of high school is about the only communist thing about it.
- causal 2y agoI think that's the point - high school is a microcosm of OPs ideas and it is not something we want to scale up.
- wakawaka28 2y agoMaybe I misread it now that I'm looking again. I'm so used to pro-communist stuff online that ambiguous takes look pro-communist.
- sdwr 2y agoEveryone is on an equal footing materially (basically), which opens the door to the social layer being all-important (and wildly unequal).
- wakawaka28 2y agoKids are not materially the same. Some kids are on foot, some have cars, some have nice cars. Same for clothes, vacations, basically everything. I think uniforms may be common these days but even with uniforms you can tell who has money, drugs, popularity. Their bodies are radically different from each other. I get what you're driving at I guess (and I initially misunderstood and thought you were pro-communist). All that happens if you take money and talent out of the equation is, the most attractive and connected people get ahead. Being unattractive is what makes a lot of people develop other positive qualities within themselves such as talent. If we are entering a talent-free world then there will be a lot of people with no prospects to have a satisfying life because there is nothing else they could do systematically to increase their value to society.