| ▲ | gaiagraphia 3 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
"mediocre people" I'm glad to see the mask is falling off the privileged caste. Is there anything inherently wrong about open access to tools? (Apart from rent payments). | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | dlmanning 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
The "privileged caste" being people who actually expended the effort to learn things for themselves? | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | djhn 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> (Apart from rent payments). Privilege enables you to rent competence, historically by paying other people. The slop companies will now sell you a simulacrum of competence by the token. The fact that competence can (could?) only be acquired through sustained effort over a long period of time is (was?) levelling the field. Selling simulated competence perpetuates privilege, instead of dismantling it like you seem to claim. | |||||||||||||||||