• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Carlin:

      You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin’ retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

      Very prescient, except for the fact that they’ll soon be skipping over the worker part right to automation all up and down the line and there will not be any UBI for the “useless eaters”.

    • They want their own children to be educated in private schools and by tutors not available to common people, and everyone else just educated enough to do their jobs and work for them.

      Maybe a few scholarships especially targeted at a few poor “gifted” children, that produce false hope and additional shame if you can’t be “good” enough for one of those scholarships.

      • LupusBlackfur@lemmy.world
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        No…

        They don’t want anyone actually educated…

        They want their kids groomed in the appropriate cult thinking and they want everyone else’s kids groomed in the appropriate fealty to their chosen/anointed/deserving cult members.

        🤦‍♀️ 🤷‍♀️ 🙄

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      Great point. But I think it’s even more than that. Not only do they want kids uneducated, they don’t want them to be happy or well-adjusted. They want an legion of angry, resentful, miserable, malleable subordinates.