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"mediocre people" I'm glad to see the mask is falling off the privileged caste. Is there anything inherently wrong about open access to tools? (Apart from ren

• dlmanning 3mo ago
  The "privileged caste" being people who actually expended the effort to learn things for themselves?
  • gaiagraphia 3mo ago
    And such people learnt everything from the beginning? From fire? Where's the cut off point of where learning something for yourself becomes the signal for entrance to the enlightened caste?
    • dlmanning 3mo ago
      It's the point where you expend effort to learn a useful skill.
• djhn 3mo ago
  > (Apart from rent payments). Privilege enables you to rent competence, historically by paying other people. The slop companies will now sell you a simulacrum of competence by the token. The fact that competence can (could?) only be acquired through sustained effort over a long period of time is (was?) levelling the field. Selling simulated competence perpetuates privilege, instead of dismantling it like you seem to claim.