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30 sats \ 5 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 12 Dec 2024 \ parent \ on: 25% of Americans Can Barely Read (_The Economist_) BooksAndArticles

I keep wondering who's gonna have the last laugh here:

the elite, coastal Economist-reading commentariat, pearl-clutching at the stupidity of your average American, but whose fluffy/non-real livelihood in ESG or gender consulting are made irrelevant and/or quickly outcompeted by AI;
...or the flyovers, uneducated, illiterates who, seemingly being the "dumbest," can at least drive a forklift or carry heavy shit or know how to do things, and will thus flourish in a world where machines make the commentariat superfluous?

Who was the "dumb" one, eh?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 12 Dec 2024

Coastal elites might be able to read and do math, but some of the dumbest people I've met are these elite educated people, read: in terms of lack of curiosity and inability to see issues outside their own framework.

Money can't buy class, and your GRE scores can't buy wisdom or virtue.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 12 Dec 2024

Totally.

But they'd score well in literacy tests!

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @LowK3y19 12 Dec 2024

Well I don’t drive a fork lift if that’s what your trying to infer

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan OP 12 Dec 2024

nope.

fork you.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LowK3y19 12 Dec 2024

Having creating forking day