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[โ€“] Odelay42@lemmy.world 183 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Teaching.

College degree mandatory, graduate degree preferred.

Yearly continuing education costs.

Out of pocket expenses for classroom materials.

Sometimes providing food for kids who don't have it.

Famously low salaries and very long hours.

[โ€“] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Luckily, underfunding the education of the next generation won't have any long lasting effects on society, right?

[โ€“] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

It creates:

  • Statistically, a constantly desperate hand-to-mouth workforce that must depend on employers to sustain their existence.
  • Armed forces signup incentives.
  • Easily-swayed consumers of products and services. (Run by those with access to nepotism and/or education, naturally.)
  • And easily manipulated voters.

Underfunding education and having people basically born into debt isn't a neglectful oversight, it's a deliberate strategy.

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You maybe missed the sarcasm mark, but I admire your optimism that we'd all get the joke.

Surely people on the internet are fair and reasonable, right? There couldn't possibly be a downside to being sarcastic over posts?

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