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On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 23:04:00 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:48:09 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:18:23 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>On Tue, 09 Jul 2024 06:52:49 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 09:24:30 -0000 (UTC), RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>>On 9 Jul 2024 at 05:04:24 BST, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> From time to time I get to remind the qroup that I'm a democratic
>>>>>> socialist - while Communists are autocratic socialists,
>>>>>> and got slung out of the International Socialist movements in 1871,
>>>>>> when Karl Marx's silly ideas about "the leading role" of the party
>>>>>> were rejected.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>Very kind of you! But a small point - the CP was, theoretically, a
>>>>>socialist bridge to communism. Nobody - especially Marx - know what
>>>>>communism would be in detail - simply that the process of
>>>>>revolutionary socialism would put an end to capitalism for the right
>>>>>reasons.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Mikhail Bakunin's famous quote dates from that period
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801264-if-you-took-the-most-ardent-
>>>revolutionary-vested-him-in
>>>>>
>>>>>So history might suggest :-)
>>>> 
>>>> In other words, power corrupts.
>>>> 
>>>> Which means that governments are dynamically unstable, and a
>>>> long-term-democratic society is a remarkable thing.
>>>> 
>>>> Why end "capitalism"? Economic and intellectual plualism works.
>>>
>>>So does a mixed economy of both private enterprise and publicly-owned
>>>bodies if the size of the state sector can be constrained.
>>>Unfortunately,
>>>states have a tendency to grow themselves if not kept in strict check
>>>and this is in large part responsible for the truly *vast* debt burden
>>>now carried on the back of so many Western countries.
>> 
>> There's a race between government getting bigger and wasting ever more
>> resources, and technology making us more productive to support all that
>> waste.
>> 
>> I was just talking to a fellow old fogey (who is literally a Fellow) and
>> we agree that young people are getting stupider, so the productivity
>> increase probably can't  keep up.
>
>Well, to be fair, that phenomenon is confined to the West and is due to 
>the dogmatic insistence of Leftists that all are equal and must be 
>educated accordingly. So the classes grind away at the speed of the 
>slowest ship in the convoy ("no child left behind" - George Bush Jr - 
>RINO). The brighter children in the class are thus dumbed down at best (at 
>worst, switch off altogether and start sniffing glue) and grade inflation 
>is employed to fudge the facts and make it appear that everything's fine 
>when it most assuredly isn't. This is definitely NOT happening in 
>countries like China and that is why they're kicking our arses and have 
>been for some time.
>

A bigger problem is kids getting bogus degrees, like film-making and
sociology and journalism and comparative literature and music theory. 

Even "computer science" can be useless.

I think some people are realizing that they should not borrow a
fortune to attend college but be apprentices in a trade, and actually
get a job.

>> Yes, the debt will have consequences too. It keeps increasing and can
>> never be paid back. Economists keep getting stupider too.
>
>"Top economists" are no different from the "top climate scientists" - 
>they're paid handsomely for parroting whatever the Globalists at the WEF 
>tell them.

Given a graph of usefulness vs expertise, some fields have a peak
pretty soon and then drop off.