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Wounded Bear

(58,647 posts)
1. Most of the modern push for 'education' is profit based...
Tue Jun 11, 2019, 10:26 AM
Jun 2019

They are attempting to profitize our public school system, and have basically succeeded in profitizing almost all college education.

Getting a good education can be a tremendous help for people trying to climb into the upper classes, but it doesn't work very well when income inequality suppresses so many people.

One problem with 'wage growth' is that it might be too late. Conservatives have been working to destroy labor for decades, and now the push toward automation has been eliminating jobs, doing far more damage to the working class than out-sourcing. The traditional model of work for pay is being destroyed. There may be no answer other than some form of UBI.

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