Just for reference: - 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. - 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

Just for reference: - 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. - 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). I would argue than everyone who is stuck a below 6th grade understanding of a language they use everyday can hardly be tech literate ( which in itself requires good reading and abstraction capabilities) Is it their fault because they choose to be like this? Their parents? Their goverment? Nature gave them the wrong genes? Society shun them for their skin color? A bearded white guy in a cloud chose to ruin their lives? Don’t know, don’t care, but demanding agency to all adults feels a bit narrow minded, selfish, and not too thankful for avoiding a few external barriers that other humans have to endure… most of us here skipped those challenges, and ignoring how much headstart we got by sheer luck and no own merit is a bit inmature, IMHO. Opinions are like noses: everyone has one, and almost all of them are unremarkable and irrelevant to other people. This is my nose.