I also really dont like the “what if you had to give away some of your grade to the dumb students?” and its implication that education is worthless unless certain people are “losers” of the system
Ironically, I never felt the drive to apply myself in high school because the way curves work, if i got on the honor roll i would just be kicking someone else off of it, which seemed net neutral at best
I did all digital notes when I was in university and just gave read-only access to the cloud where I stored them for literally anybody who asked. Like word got around and people from other majors who took the same course where like “Hey you’re the dude with the notes, right? Can I get access?” and I’m like “yeah sure leave me an e-mail.”
Most people just greeted me friendly after that or bought me the occasional coffee when they were convinced they’d have flunked an exam otherwise, but there was just this sizeable minority of people asking why I don’t want anything in return or fearing I’d retroactively force a deal on them. The whole Idea that I made those notes anyways for myself digitally and that it’s 0 effort to give someone access to them didn’t compute for them.
I went to university studying a rather reactionary field full of rich failsons, weird Ayn Rand nerds and God, King and Country dorks cosplaying as interwar members of the landed gentry. And everyone shared notes left right and centre, everyone helped each other make illegal copies of textbooks.
if their grade determines whether they get to eat tonight, I’d be a piece of shit not to
the education system is peak fuckin capitalism lmao
they spend our entire youth instilling peak Randian individualist drivel and making a system where to succeed you just have to work really hard while ignoring everyone else
and then in the last five seconds they’re like “oh fuck, isn’t 99.9% of actual work communal group projects???” and shove groups of socially inept youth together to do group work with zero experience to the point where group projects are despised in American schools because everyone is so focused on themselves and these groups inevitably go to shit because of that
i had a project management class where every fucking lesson was just “communicate and treat each other like human beings haha” because people literally needed to hear that
basically something something contradictions
All liberal theory is ridiculous thought experiments divorced from reality. “What if two people were living on a deserted island, one of them had a unicorn and the rate of interest was constant?”
Insert Harry Potter joke here
Lol speaking of lemonade stands my local news had a feel good story about a couple of little girls’ lemonade stand. Their dad paid for a city food stand license and for a supplier for the lemonade or something. It’s so bizarre to cover it as an enterprising way to earn some extra pocket money when the start up cost is probably north of $10k.
Leftist theory : “North Korea deserves our support despite being a repressive corrupt dictatorship because they have communist aesthetics”
Idk what do you think should happen to North Korea? Imo the country gets supported or it becomes part of South Korea
Yeah that’s why people support North Korea. They really love empty communist aesthetics. Not because they have a command economy or democratic centralism or are besieged by Western powers after attempted genocide against them.
They don’t even really have communist aesthetics anymore, they talk more about Juche than Marxism-Leninism, and I haven’t seen them carry a portrait of Lenin or Marx at a military parade since Kim Jong-il was in charge.
Command economy =/= socialism. They don’t even have a proper functioning command economy like the USSR, they are mostly liberalized. They are a capitalist country with nationalized businesses and a massive private black market. It’s purely their aesthetics that attracts Western leftist support. No western leftist actually wants to implement the policies that NK implements.
Never said a command economy was socialist. But many Leninists support command economies as a transitional system to socialism, and since NK has a command economy, they support NK. Also they never “mostly liberalized”, attempts at liberalization within the special economic zones were largely failures. Most of the economy is state-owned.
You’re trying to come up with some weird logic as to why people disagree with you about NK. I’ll tell you now: people don’t disagree with you because they’re all fake radlib aesthetic-loving PMC idpol Western leftist red fascist authoritarian tankies.
