On the one hand it would greatly benefit capital if this is happening. On the other hand it would greatly benefit capital to convince you that this is happening.

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

On the one hand it would greatly benefit capital if this is happening.

Would it? The public education system was largely designed BY capitalists cuz they realized they needed more workers who were literate and knew basic mathematics. As long as you sprinkle in a heathy dose of anti-communist propaganda teaching kids ABCs and 123s isn't all that more likely to make them read Marx.

Keeping your workers undereducated is really only beneficial if you have a feudal/plantation agricultural economy, and outside some of the really psycho CHUDs idk how many American capitalists want the US regressing back into the late Holy Roman Empire.

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The problem they found is that teaching people to read and do math is a gateway to understanding things like history, the economy, labor laws, etc. I think we've reached a stage where they would rather make the jobs easier to do for illiterate people than risk class consciousness growing any more than it has.

Couple that with the rollback of child labor laws and you can see the future we're heading toward.

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Idk dude. Everyone here is constantly talking about how public schools are basically propaganda centers that also teach some basic job training skill, and how much as the right may claim otherwise most universities just pump out STEM fascists or social studies PMC Libs who go onto either be middle managers or NYT op Ed writers. I know plenty of well educated people and most of them aren't comrades, meanwhile socialist revolutions have taken off in places where most of the population was illiterate. Class consciousness is the west has always been fucking abysmal, even when the west had better educational standards.

I think a lot of this is just Christo-fash who want to regress back to a plantation economy so they can get away with molesting their own daughters more.

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that tracks. Fucking hate this place. Death to America

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

Keeping your workers undereducated is really only beneficial if you have a feudal/plantation agricultural economy, and outside some of the really psycho CHUDs idk how many American capitalists want the US regressing back into the late Holy Roman Empire.

The US was able to get away with this through brain drain. All the difficult technical and intellectual work was done by brain drained professionals from the Global South while the domestic population was barely educated enough to be a wage slave. But now that those professionals are less likely to travel to the US or are repatriating back (as we have seen with Chinese scientists due to Sinophobia), the chickens are coming home to roost.

Actual US domestic talent has been lacking for a very long time, and it's only going to get worse.