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by mmarq 1812 days ago
> Lots of people would like to choose "caring" work. Teaching, healthcare, policy stuff, knowledge stuff, etc. Something meaningful and rewarding. > With rising inequity, only people who can afford higher education, who don't have to work to eat, can choose these "caring" career paths. > Some fraction of the resentment towards the "liberal elite" is from being denied access to these "caring" roles. Made worse by the obliviousness of people like me not even realizing there's a problem.

Is there really a phenomenon of people angry to the point of causing social instability because they have to work in a bank rather than teaching calculus in high school?

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Pol Pot did want to teach history, after all.