Deferring hard choices and labor price discovery is what got us here to begin with.
I don't care if early starting zeds displace x'ers from the job market.
At some point reality is going to come crashing back in like the red sea on pharaoh's dumb army, and the whole world will know that the true value of labor was realized in Dickensian England. Life is cheap.
Y'ever read about Herbert Hoover? Lost both his parents by age 10, dropped out of high school, yet by age 40 he was one of the richest men in the world.
Also sucked as president. The rare Hoover type is akin to a Lottery winner in that their spectacular success is not going to be replicated much by studying them.
I worked since I was 14 and I completed highschool, and got a degree (though I took some time off for about a 1.5 years sporadically during the degree to complete it) - it's not an and or - it can be both. Just as trades can be both too.
Education was not as backwards though when I did my rounds - we still had two genders and freedom loving stuff albeit socialist tainted
Now we have machines for that and you were not doing it at 11pm for a corporation but most likely your family or a neighbor, right? I worked "illegally" starting in 6 th grade, but in hindsight it was not a good use of time.
The crazy part is they were ever disallowed from working to begin with
imagine how much further we would be if we threw middle school and high school in the trash and everybody did internships
I'm okay with this.
OP, do you realize how much of an anomaly our previous "people start actually working at 21 after 17 years of school" world was?
Deferring hard choices and labor price discovery is what got us here to begin with.
I don't care if early starting zeds displace x'ers from the job market.
At some point reality is going to come crashing back in like the red sea on pharaoh's dumb army, and the whole world will know that the true value of labor was realized in Dickensian England. Life is cheap.
Gradgrind was a lying hypocrite. Maybe read Hard Times?
I have no idea what you're talking about. Elaborate.
Dickens novel partly about a man always moralizing about being self made and willpower and work ethic.
I prefer to focus on actual self made men.
Y'ever read about Herbert Hoover? Lost both his parents by age 10, dropped out of high school, yet by age 40 he was one of the richest men in the world.
Also sucked as president. The rare Hoover type is akin to a Lottery winner in that their spectacular success is not going to be replicated much by studying them.
I worked since I was 14 and I completed highschool, and got a degree (though I took some time off for about a 1.5 years sporadically during the degree to complete it) - it's not an and or - it can be both. Just as trades can be both too.
Education was not as backwards though when I did my rounds - we still had two genders and freedom loving stuff albeit socialist tainted
Now we have machines for that and you were not doing it at 11pm for a corporation but most likely your family or a neighbor, right? I worked "illegally" starting in 6 th grade, but in hindsight it was not a good use of time.
i agree with this. next step? 12 years old! then 10. perhaps we can do some type of hybrid model of child labor under capitalism? O.o
Americans killed more than 60,000,000 babies since 70s. Now want kids not killed to work more. This is a wretched nation in need of chastisement.