MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
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MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
6d ago
I think the worst aspect of “not noticing” in various ways is that it harms the person with lower capacity the most. When we can’t acknowledge that not every kid is going to be successful in college, that doesn’t hurt those who will be fine in college, but those who won’t. We can sort of cheat them through (combinations of grade inflation and easy majors can probably get anyone within 1σ of normal to a diploma) but even then, they cannot do that level of work, and worse, they graduate with outsized expectations (I graduated therefore I get a nice middle class job, right? Right?) but with no actual skills they can actually trade for a decent living. Now instead of the dumb kids learning carpentry and roofing, they pretend to learn Literature and graduate with no skill at all. Further, there’s no real plan for how to employ those with limited ability. Most of those jobs are either gone to computers and machines or to immigrants or shipped off to Pakistan. Even if we start recognizing that Johnny is stupid, there’s no place in the economy for him, nor is there a welfare program for him. He’s either going to hustle (probably in some form of illegal way) or starve or get hooked on drugs and hopefully take himself out.
Do those jobs provide liveable wages? I mean I get that we have some sort of “jobs” for stupid people, but they generally don’t pay enough to live on let alone have a family or not need roommates etc. especially when compared to things like skilled labor.
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