Total billionaire wealth in the EU reached €2.4 trillion by late November, exceeding Italy's entire GDP of €2.2 trillion and approaching France's €2.9 trillion economy, a new Oxfam report found.
  • cecilkorik@lemmy.caEnglish
    111·
    11 hours ago

    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.orgEnglish
      537·
      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.

      • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        282·
        10 hours ago

        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.

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          52 minutes ago

          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.

      • Instigate@aussie.zoneEnglish
        8·
        8 hours ago

        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.

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        11 hours ago

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