Reply #94: Oh, really?

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Honestly, flipping a burger or rotating a screwdriver or digging a ditch or swinging a hammer doesn't require the daily ability to read

Oh, really? How about reading the road signs and regulatory signs it takes to get to the job site? How about passing a written test for a driver's license?

There are dozens of times a day that you read when you don't even think about it. Try looking up someone's phone number in the phone book without being able to read. Try deciding what to order off a fast-food menu. Try grocery shopping. Try figuring out what's on tonight on TV.

Knowing how to read is freedom, so debate away about the evils of reading allowing "authoritarians wishing to control us" and "scammers and predators taking advantage of us." No. Someone who reads can be informed of such ills in the world and beware of them. Reading is freedom.