• Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Education. But you can clearly see the defects of the last 40 years of defunding and deriding education.

  • betelplouf@sh.itjust.works
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    Education, help your community, try to help people around you getting out of their job thoughts and doing something they actually like, meet new people

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    If they’re being paid off you can’t stop them. You have to stop the billionaires first, then the payoff money stops flowing and all of a sudden the arrogant and petty petit bourgeoisie are on their own desperately trying to convince you that they were on your side all along.

  • asmoranomar@lemmy.world
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    Explain to them that you can still be a billionaire if you are dead. You can still be a senator if you are dead. Next question.

  • 🇨🇦GreenBeard🇨🇦@lemmy.ca
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    That’s the fun part. You don’t. It’s human nature, at least for neurotypical hominids to submit to confident icons, even when that confidence is unearned and grounded in hubris, not competence. Wealth makes people very confident, even about things they don’t actually understand. You’re not going to educate them into abandoning millions of years of human instinct. What you can do is make people angry enough at the current crop of billionaires they’re ready to put them up against the wall tell them you have a way to keep terrible people from getting that obscenely wealthy again, and then do it… with the knock on effect of making that level of obscene wealth disparity systemically impossible for anyone. That’s going to make people angry too though, you’re probably going to end up crucified for it, because you know, it’s a country of temporarily embarrassed billionaires.

  • lmdnw@lemmy.world
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    1. Stop allowing cuts to education and stop advancing kids who can’t comprehend the material for that grade. The world will always need ditch diggers. Telling a future ditch digger that they’re smart enough to graduate when they can’t read and/or comprehend at their grade level, if at all, is doing that child and society as a whole a disservice. Not only does it set up that child to then become an arrogant adult, but it deprives society of the documentation, or lack thereof, that this person is not, and should not be, considered any sort of authority on anything other than ditch digging.

    2. Understand that some people are actually evil and don’t deserve to live.