• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      Rich people are a very solvable problem, so let’s focus on problems we can solve first okay?

      Who knows, maybe the other problems will be easier to solve without billionaires making them worse!

    • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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      The stupidity is happening because it benefits rich people to fill the world with stupid people. Stupid, gullible people are the key to their endlessly growing profits and wealth extraction.

      We already know how to solve stupidity. We have always known it. Education has been one of the core pillars of human civilization since antiquity. It wasn’t the first man to discover fire who changed everything, it was the person who discovered how to teach the next generation to control fire at least as well if not better than they originally did.

      Education has not failed us. Education has been sabotaged and dismantled. By rich and powerful people, for their own purposes.

      First we get rid of those rich and powerful people who have set themselves against us, then we rebuild everyone’s education and if we’re lucky, we might get to move on with our civilization eventually. Nobody promised it’s going to be easy. But it is necessary, if we wish the human race to continue, and traditionally we’ve been pretty stubbornly invested in that.

      • BigBolillo@mgtowlemmy.org
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        11 hours ago

        Trust me there are people who even using the best education they stop being stupid is like it is in their genes.

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          Get that Nazi shit out of your brain. We all have reactionary ideas like this imbedded in us from growing up in western society. So, please, I beg you, purge that “it’s in their genes (blood)” and “iq” shit from your brain. It’s just a modern version of “blood and soil” even if you didn’t mean it that way.

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            At first I thought they meant it like “nepo babies going to ivy leagues remain stupid and out-of-touch,” but on second glance I think you’re right. Yikes.

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          I know people who have intellectual disabilities who are some of the loveliest and most caring people I’ve ever met. Intelligence does not dictate a person’s capacity to be a productive and caring member of society. Empathy, however, is a skill that can be taught to all but a few who are clinically psychopathic. Intelligence is not a marker of a valuable member of society - empathy and compassion are.

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          11 hours ago

          While true, they are the minority. That is not an argument against education.

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      The rich are the root of stupidity weaponized against liberal democracy, working people, and the common good.

      Fixed by organization, innumerable groups federated on a main forum outside silicon valley’s control cooperating on what we agree on in public and private ways as we see fit. With clear moderation rules appealed to a jury of peers to prevent govt, bus groups getting their hooks in and ratfucking it all.

    • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      One reason that people are stupid is because rich people need slave labor, so they set up a system where people don’t learn to think for themselves.

            • RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca
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              You’re suggesting we burn our respective countries to the ground, full on civil war and complete destruction, fracture of civil society, starvation and economic collapse, with no guarantees about who, when or what will step into that maelstrom of human suffering, other than your assurances that it will be better than what we have now.

              Sorry, but I’m skeptical that you have a reasonable way forward.

            • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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              Why would you salt the ashes if you intend to rebuild? You’re aware that that makes land inarable for generations, right?