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Re:Xi Jinping’s Capitalist Smackdown Sparks a $1T Reckoning by keutoi on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:19AM (#28033794)
Education as a way up in society has been in China for a long time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination .
Re:Xi Jinping’s Capitalist Smackdown Sparks a $1T Reckoning by DubiousPusher on Monday August 02, 2021 @09:10PM (#28044658)
I understand that. And I'm not opposed to creating rewards for educational attainment. But we as humans have to realize that cognitively people come in many shapes and sizes. And we should consider that it's possible that a certain amount of people are going to flunk out of the modern world. The more homogenous and narrow we make the singular way in which we expect people to live, the more some will fail to find their footing. So far, modernity has widened what it accepts from people in many ways. But in one key way it has narrowed. We expect virtually everyone to become employed and pay rent. And we paint a pretty singular path to better employment, formal education.