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by alexashka 2725 days ago
This article, while well written, doesn't bring anything to the table, other than poking the obvious holes in someone else's mediocre work.

The reason people feel like what they're involved in is bullshit, is because it is. There is no grand conspiracy.

It's bullshit so much of the time is because people are more interested in succeeding personally, than in not screwing things up for tens, hundreds, millions, billions, of others.

Is your job bullshit? Then quit and get a potentially lower paying job that is less bullshit. Have you done that? No? End of debate. If you actually can't afford to get paid any less, you are not busy moaning about your job being bullshit. People in survival mode are hustling, not moaning.

This is not news and there is no cure that doesn't involve re-structuring, which always involves many at the very least getting their life ruined. Re-structuring doesn't guarantee that things get better, only that they change. Until by some miracle, intelligent people with integrity end up at the top, have enough power to cut heads, get away with it and understand that it's necessary, nothing is going to really change. It'll merely re-structure.

Capitalism today, communism tomorrow, we're still dumb, selfish apes that are largely uninterested in the welfare of others unless it directly affects us. Most people I know didn't start to care about anyone other than themselves until they had children. Now they care about themselves and their children - so we have private schools instead of improving the school system. Selfish to the bone, this will not change.

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So, bring back tribal structures where everything is structured with child-relations.

If every tribe has its private school(s), there is no need to fight for spending on public schools.

With the internet at hand, are there any structures that cannot be implemented with tribal relations?