Re:Are jobs obsolete?
by kamaal on Thursday September 08, 2011 @06:15AM
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Here in India, when I went to school 10 years back there was a subject called 'SUPW' - which expands to "Socially useful productive work'.
They generally teach kids how to make some thing very simple which can actually be sell-able or used to solve a problem.
I and my other friends like 5 other kids had made some 5-6 door mats from cigarette packs alone. And then we were taught how to go and sell them. I remember we had made some thing like 200 rupees back then(A pretty a big amount for kids). There were many such small projects, Many had woven designer baskets. Or some kind of a trivial sofa using cardboard.
Unfortunately I heard, these days that subject is no longer being taught for more fancier things like karate, or learning parts of a computer.
In short, in school they taught us how to hack. Generate wealth.
They generally teach kids how to make some thing very simple which can actually be sell-able or used to solve a problem.
I and my other friends like 5 other kids had made some 5-6 door mats from cigarette packs alone. And then we were taught how to go and sell them. I remember we had made some thing like 200 rupees back then(A pretty a big amount for kids). There were many such small projects, Many had woven designer baskets. Or some kind of a trivial sofa using cardboard.
Unfortunately I heard, these days that subject is no longer being taught for more fancier things like karate, or learning parts of a computer.
In short, in school they taught us how to hack. Generate wealth.