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To me the ability to read a whole book is a competitive advantage in the job market.
by tomcam 10mo ago
To me the ability to read a whole book is a competitive advantage in the job market.
- eimrine 10mo agoFor what industries?
- epolanski 10mo agoAny job position requiring intelligence and nuance which unavoidably stems from informing yourself.
- eimrine 10mo agoBut the same will inevitably make you hating the capitalism which eventually makes you not better candidate on the market but worse.
- epolanski 10mo agoI hate capitalism but I don't make the rules so play the game anyway.
- bitcurious 10mo ago>But the same will inevitably make you hating the capitalism If anything, reading has made me recognize the cultural and historic universality of the problems folks attribute to capitalism.
- eimrine 10mo agoSorry, I meant reading books.
- 1718627440 10mo agoSaying everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot, that just hasn't found enlightenment is not a good argument. A sizable portion of people will have the opposite revelation. I for one think people still thinking socialism is a good thing, haven't read enough history books about the 20th century.
- tomcam 10mo agoAny. Even if you're doing a blue collar job, understanding the fundamentals (or at least the specifics about a particular subfield) makes you "the guy" and adds some job security. As a programmer I often got ahead just because I'd read all of the C standard library, the Windows API docs, etc.