school is pretty much just actively harmful, especially for boys. Sit down and shut the fuck up for 8 hours isn’t always the easiest thing for a seven year old, and drugging them if they have issues with this is asinine, but around 1 in 5 boys have to take drugs (adderral, Ritalin, etc) as children to cope with schooling.
On top of that children spending most of their waking life in a social system that’s never replicated again—everyone being exactly the same age and competing for the attention of one authority figure—probably isn’t good preparation for life.
And homework must be abolished.
The best thing that can be said about the system is that it if it’s done well it truly does prepare you for the academic life of college
If we focused law enforcement on illegal employers rather than illegal immigrants we'd make a major impact on that problem in no time. Much cheaper and easier to enforce. Put a few restaurant and hotel and golf course owners in jail for perpetuating illegal immigration, those opportunities will quickly dry up and the primary motivation for most illegal immigration goes away.
Voting is nice an all, but I can’t help but feel that uninformed voting is worse than uninformed people not voting. Some vetting would be nice, but I am going to wager a guess that expecting that voters should be able to read at an 8th grade level or pass high school or speak English is the “controversial” position
Earlier you said uniformed people make bad decisions that impact everyone else,
There was never a more politically agreeable statement than "We shouldn't be drugging little kids because they won't sit still."
I disagree to an extent. In a workplace setting, you have a job to do. And you must do that job to the specifications that the boss wants while cooperating with your peers regardless of their ages. Imparting this trait is an outsized function of post-industrial pedagogy.
Definitely disagree. School is "structured time", in that you must do X because there's somebody breathing down your neck and making you do X. But it doesn't teach you how to manage "unstructured time" when there's nobody around to make you do stuff. It doesn't teach you self-control when nobody's watching. But homework does.Of course, there's plenty of room to argue that students receive too much homework, but homework in principle is a good thing.
This is what schools nowadays are designed to do: prepare students for college. Standardized curriculum and exams are in place to prepare students for passing SAT/ACT and having a uniform baseline of knowledge upon admission to a college. Nobody would argue that it's designed to adequately prepare you for the real world.
The best thing that can be said about the system is that it if it’s done well it truly does prepare you for the academic life of college and the twelve years of boring and humiliating grind prepares you for boring and humiliating office jobs, but if you don’t go down that track as most don’t I’m not convinced it was worth anywhere near twelve years of your youth
Voting is nice an all, but I can’t help but feel that uninformed voting is worse than uninformed people not voting. Some vetting would be nice, but I am going to wager a guess that expecting that voters should be able to read at an 8th grade level or pass high school or speak English is the “controversial” position
This is meaningless. The problem in wealth equality is that our system of reward is more or less arbitrary. Whether I'm better than you, or you me, has nothing to do with it. Elon Musk is not worth 50 million dollars an hour where another is worth 3 cent.
If you like, taxation is a band-aid fix where we have allowed our system of reward to develop organically.
I'll let you in on a little secret. There are no black or white people.You have been lied to your whole life to believe various shades of pink and beige is white and various shades of Brown and yellow are Black.In fact, every single person on the planet is a unique color and the same as no other in the world. There exists no Albinos that are actually 100% white and there are no people that are 100% Black on the color spectrum.Think about that the next time you ponder the meaning of the universe.
Are you under some impression that I subscribe to the U.S.'s/Globe's current economic system?
Nothing "organic" about it.
Doesn't make "equality" any less illogical.
Yes, more or less. Free market anarchism. Strip away government, leave the rest.
Economy is endless convolution grown around the idea of IOU's.
Stocks and shares and patents and everything else is just more.s
Nobody planned it, it all just grew out of an idea.
So what's your point?
How much faith do you have in your local central planners to decide what is best for you?How sure are you that their plans will line up with what you think is best for you?
Economy is endless convolution grown around the idea of IOU's.Nope.
And you believe global markets and U.S. based markets exemplify free market anarchism?
Yes it is. That's what money is and that's what all the rest is. It all grew out of the idea of IOU's. The first piece of currency was a slip of paper with IOU written on it and here we are today, a monstrous capitalist machine.
I believe the free market is a con and always was.
No, it isn't. What you're talking about is fiat money, not the Economy.
That's not what I asked. I asked whether or not you believed that Global and U.S. based markets exemplified free market anarchism.
So the basic unit of economy is IOU and economy is not convolutions built atop the idea of IOU? All right, buddy.
I think you can have whatever good feelings you like about those three words, but they'll come to slavery.
My good feeling are irrelevant. And you're still not addressing my question.
now he's watching me through every electronic device that I own.
Why do we need billionaires?
I'm just not very interested in your pedantic way of argument.
If you have something to say, say it. Why should I submit to this pulling of nails?
Money makes the world go round, Athias.
It is [part of the] economy.
It's the beginning and end of all complexity in trade.
If you don't however, then we'll just proceed as though it were a dropped point.
Not the slightest bit true
Not the slightest bit true. Resources, which are not necessarily monetary, are the beginning and end of all trade.
now he's watching me through every electronic device that I own.Why do you choose to do facebook? I don'tWhy do we need billionaires?Nobody is forcing you to shop at Walmart. TBH I haven't been to a Walmart in years.
