• MajorMajormajormajor
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    6 months ago

    Luckily, underfunding the education of the next generation won’t have any long lasting effects on society, right?

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      6 months ago

      It creates:

      • Statistically, a constantly desperate hand-to-mouth workforce that must depend on employers to sustain their existence.
      • Armed forces signup incentives.
      • Easily-swayed consumers of products and services. (Run by those with access to nepotism and/or education, naturally.)
      • And easily manipulated voters.

      Underfunding education and having people basically born into debt isn’t a neglectful oversight, it’s a deliberate strategy.

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      6 months ago

      You maybe missed the sarcasm mark, but I admire your optimism that we’d all get the joke.

      • MajorMajormajormajor
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        6 months ago

        Surely people on the internet are fair and reasonable, right? There couldn’t possibly be a downside to being sarcastic over posts?