this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
12 points (87.5% liked)
BecomeMe
832 readers
1 users here now
Social Experiment. Become Me. What I see, you see.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
People are less educated now than they were in 1900? That could not possibly be more wrong.
Access to (and participation in) education has increased dramatically for the overwhelming majority of the population. Just look at literacy rates.
Less educated? No. Less skilled workers in manufacturing and fabrication through automation? Yes. It was part and parcel of cost cutting of labour. Even Charlie Chaplin made a point of it.
In modern times, things have gotten more complex though, because of technological advances. Not that it stopped western "capitalists" from cutting labour costs, by instead opting to outsource labour to communist China.
There's that pesky dialectical materialism showing its ugly face again.