Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.

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  • That doesn’t make any sense as a statement. It sounds like you can’t force freedom on people, but yeah you can make them free without consent but I don’t get how that makes sense in this context.

    Multiple countries show socialism works perfectly fine for essential and shared services and other things a society needs. It doesn’t work for everything, which is why so many countries are a blend of socialist public stuff like universal healthcare, free education, and those kinds of things whle still having capitalism in the firm of private for profit companies for non-essential stuff like restaurants and clothing stores.

    Note that if the country has socialist in the name it probably isn’t actually socialist in practice.






  • You are conflating the result of society filtering people with less education into blue collar work with the potential for the work to involve bigotry.

    Saying people should avoid the trades because of the current culture reinforces the current culture by filtering it to the same uneducated pool of candidates. In a first world country higher education should be free so even those that go into trades have the opportunity to further their education without it being tied to their career goals.




  • It isn’t anti intellectualism, it is a overcorrection for the decades of insisting that going to college (and taking on massive debt in the US at least) is the right career path although it isn’t worth it anymore. It isn’t saying that knowledge and learning are bad, but they aren’t as economically advantageous as they were a couple decades ago.

    The trades are good for a fairly quick return, but you are correct that they and to take a physical toll and the pay is generally exaggerated.

    Offices are full of misogyny, homophobiaz and other forms of bigotry too.

    A better approach would be to promote both on their own positives and negatives, but humans tend to swing wildly from one extreme to another.