The world is the way it is now because too many people stopped studying. Learning shit isnt just for employment.
This kid gets it
Submitted 2 days ago by chagall@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://i.imgur.com/88J61p7.mp4
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Zexks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ieGod@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
I have a hard time making conclusive statements in various subjects precisely because of how many unknowns there are. And the more I learn the larger that discrepancy grows. I am utterly baffled how anyone can be a politician and make these broad general statements as if they’re fact on multiple topics all at once. Then people eat it up and build identities around it. I feel like I’m crazy.
stickly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Eh, people didn’t stop studying but the corporate capture of our governments undercut our educational institutions. People still study, but the resources devoted to structured foundational learning (ie. public schools) are now devoted to wealth extraction (eg. shortform video platforms).
Come on kids, lets learn all about how ivermectin enemas will cure your acne! [after this ad break]
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah. You need to study so that way you have the skills and knowledge they’re trying to teach you. With that knowledge you can
Literature class: write decently well, interpret themes, messages, and intent in media, engage in critical thinking and use it to present an argument for your position, understand that other people have their own perspectives and be able to entertain those perspectives
Math: think logically, understand relationships with numbers, understand the basics of how spacial dimensions interact, do all the minimum necessary math associated with citizenship as well as more that is likely to come up at some point in your life with at least the understanding required to pick it up again quickly after looking it up
Science: basic understanding of how the physical world works so that when topics of science come up you have some framework with which to approach it, an understanding of the scientific method and the philosophy of empiricism (these are often taught very poorly ime), an understanding of how physical objects in this world interact with each other and the basics of what makes machines do things and why
History: an understanding of what has happened before, trends and ideas from the past and their consequences, you’re supposed to learn from it not take it as an instruction guide, an understanding of how the world and society got to be like this, basic understanding of various philosophies of governance and ways the world has been viewed
Government: as a citizen of a democracy you’re going to be given a share in its ownership when you reach the age of majority, you really should understand how it works and have a basic sense of your duties and the reasons for them as well as how the law works
Foreign language: it’s just useful ok, and the second language is the hardest
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
We had NO science class here Q_Q
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People stopped studying because higher education was turned over to the corpos so it could be “optimized”.
invictvs@lemmy.world 2 days ago
When I was in high school we got to write an essay (or something like that, I don’t remember anymore) on some topic I didn’t have any opinions about, so I gave an empty sheet of paper with only my name on it. The teacher was really puzzled, an brought up this to me and my mom. She wondered why I didn’t cheat and copy something from the internet like a lot of my classmates did actually. We already had smartphones, it was around 2012-2013. I didn’t cheat because my parents taught me honesty, that was my answer to my teacher.
Guess what? I got the lowest possible grade (essentially I failed this exam). People who cheated, and she knew they cheated got higher grades. Not that I’m complaining, I got the grade I deserved in my opinion. I would like to note that I wasn’t a lazy student or anything, it was this one time that I slipped up, and preferred to be honest about it.
What school taught me is that cheating will get you further than honesty. If you can’t make it, fake it. This translated very well when I started working in a corporate environment.
mitkase@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh, come on. If that were true, some of the people in our highest political offices would be incompetent morons who cheated their way into power!
invictvs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You are right, I can’t imagine that happening in the real world
ieGod@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
In my 20+ years in the corporate world now it seems that everything is just a sale. Every transaction (business to business, business to consumer, employee to business, employee to employee) is a sales pitch. The quality of the transaction matters less than the sale itself.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
While you did deserve to fail, you should have at least gotten some points for honesty!
invictvs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I got something more important — a life lesson! It serves me well now that I work in a corporate environment and turns out school is not that different, some of the management in my company even gives me back memories of the kindergarden.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Not only glad about it, it will make everyone else police each other so nobody kills themselfs and escape it. We all have to suffer, death can NOT be an option.👍 if you even think about it we will lock you up
Fedizen@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
When everybody is police, who is gonna make things and staff hospitals
MissJinx@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I don’t thing you read it correctly
Darkness343@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It might be a silly joke video but it’s grim dark and deep af
BillyClark@piefed.social 2 days ago
For some reason, I am starting to feel closer to the methods of Diogenes as I get older. If you’re not familiar with him, I suggest you read at least the intro on his Wikipedia page…. actually, I’ll just copy it here:
Diogenes the Cynic (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/, dy-OJ-in-eez; c. 413/403 – c. 324/321 BC), also known as Diogenes of Sinope, was an ancient Greek philosopher during the period of Classical Greece, and one of the founders of Cynicism.
Renowned for his ascetic lifestyle and radical critiques of social conventions, he became a legendary figure whose life and teachings have been recounted, often through anecdote, in both antiquity and modernity. Diogenes advocated for a return to nature, the renunciation of wealth, and introduced early ideas of cosmopolitanism by proclaiming himself a “citizen of the world”.
Diogenes was born to a prosperous family in Sinope. His life took a dramatic turn following a scandal involving the debasement of coinage, an event that led to his exile and ultimately his radical rejection of conventional values. Embracing a life of poverty and self-sufficiency, he became famous for his unconventional, shameless behaviors that openly challenged societal norms, such as living in a jar or wandering public spaces with a lit lantern in daylight, claiming to be “looking for a man”, that is to say “for a wise man” (sophos).
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
such as living in a jar
Beg pardon?
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
He lived in a very large clay jar, which is actually not that uncommon in the Roman empire during the time that he lived. Almost everyone in the metropolitan areas of the Roman empire owned at least one such jar, and so homeless people would live in them in much the same way homeless people today might live in their cars or a tent. The reason it’s significant that Diogenes lived in one is that he did so by choice, as he had the wealth and social status to live quite comfortably if he wanted to.
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
#jarliving
breadleyloafsyou@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
when i grow up i want to be kust like diogenas
BanMe@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Study just enough to start your own business. Do NOT study so hard you become convinced it’s impossible to do, that you become afraid and weak. A business class is great. A business degree is too far. You need a little magical thinking to succeed, basically you need to lie to yourself about how successful you can be, and if you do it right, you’ll believe your own lies and succeed. Unless your parents are wealthy and will just hand you a business when you turn 18, in which case, kill yourself.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
A business class is great? But a business degree is too far? Like I don’t honestly want to know how much you’ve been smoking before you made this comment. Studying and going to school and doing those things that lead you to what you want to do or not bad things. Like I don’t understand the whole thought process of half the people here on Lemmy.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
Please don’t.
SpankyDoodle@eviltoast.org 1 day ago
Meat for the grinder would make a good band name
Zacryon@feddit.org 23 hours ago
There are already a few that have a name in that direction.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The kids are alright.
chrizzly@feddit.org 1 day ago
The Who: The kids are alright The Offspring: The kids aren’t alright
In this case I’d give it to the Who
discocactus@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I mean, it’s AI, but… Sure.
FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
What? You think this whole video is AI?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
“Won’t the constsnt toil grind my soul to dust?”
“It’ll be ground finer than dust!”
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Don’t worry, the tankies will replace the capitalist grinder with a communist one.
Eventually.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There’s nothing I want more than to be a mid-level cog in the
corporatestate political machine./S
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
The kids are alright.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 days ago
said the same thing about gen z…didn’t realize until it was too late the “z” is for Nazi
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Critical support… You can’t be critical of capitalism while promoting “ownership” as the alternative. I’ve seen this kind of meme before and I don’t think it’s a helpful approach. Feels like recuperation.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hey kids, don’t engage with society. It’s a lost cause. Get a shell, find an island, and start over. It’s so much better than this.
Bababasti@feddit.org 1 day ago
Or… you know… build a better society.
Slowly, naturally and directly in your personal environment, where you have the most influence. Help out your neighbors. Build support groups for child care or start a local soup kitchen. There are so many great ways to implement mutual aid and solidarity amongst the people.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Slowly, naturally and directly in your personal environment, where you have the most influence.
This is literally what wealthy people do and it greatly upsets of the non-wealthy.
The rugged individualist lifestyle is most benefiticial to the wealthy. People in that mindset aren’t honest with themselves on all the ways they feed the machine.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hey kids. Stop parroting trendy nonsense!
ScottThePoolBoy@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Gristle for the mill
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day ago
Inspiring.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yup. This is how I imagine them.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Now, i’m sad again.
kboos1@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I don’t think I have ever been asked for my GPA or school transcripts. Usually they just check to see if I graduated.
If you for a corporation then yes, your job is to make someone else rich. If you don’t like it then start your own business and hope it doesn’t go tits up. You can also try to become internet famous but that’s hard if your parents aren’t already well off.
Adult hood and responsibility is rough. Good luck young dude.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wrong community. This is for shitposts, not depressing factual information.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The vent diagram between shitposts//depressing factual information//satire has become a circle. The call to stand for our right to memes and prosperity is everywhere for a reason.
certified_expert@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Venn diagram