Re:Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
by HDThoreaun on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @06:23PM
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> I've never eaten lunch with an adult, my age or younger, who didn't attend college
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
It is completely wild to me how effectively society has self segregated to the point of just straight up never, not even once, interacting with the other group without even realizing it.
Re:Robots Have Been About to Take All the Jobs for 100 Years
by aidenn0 on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @07:49PM
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The college thing is a much bigger divide than politics for my friend group. My wife is about as blue-tribe as you can get. My best-man is pretty darn red tribe (and not Mitt Romney red-tribe, but "likely to vote for Trump in the next Republican primary" red-tribe).
They both have college degrees though. I have a few friends who dropped out of college, but none that never attended.
My grandfather is about as smart as I am, but he never went to college (nor did well over 90% of his cohort). Now about half the population goes to college, and more than a third graduate.
That's a massive transformation in two generations, and its exacerbated by the degree to which it segregates. I've never eaten lunch with an adult, my age or younger, who didn't attend college.