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[-] djsiete@sh.itjust.works 39 points 10 hours ago

The absolute worst thing about how STEM is taught in my country is how entirely devoid curriculums are from critical theory. You take inputs, outputs, energies and production as-is, and you get a crop of drones who think such discussions are irrelevant. Then they graduate, start working and earning good money -- and suddenly they support capitalist production structures because they're "rational" and "objective". Some then become the biggest chuds ever known to man.

I remember that I discussed gentrification with a civil engineer who happened to be my boss, a very renowned and talented person in our branch. He didn't know what gentrification was...

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 12 minutes ago

civil engineer [...] didn’t know what gentrification was…

Sweet jebus on ice-skates. The guy was potentially a literal if not figurative architect in service of one of the most profound mechanisms of gentrification and hadn't heard of it?! That's like designing cars and being unaware of traffic jams and induced demand.

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 40 minutes ago

What do you mean with critical theory?

[-] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Isn't it funny how people who "have things" are less likely to be all that interested in leftism. And those who don't have "things" look at them, want more leftism because they want want the "things" the people who have "things" and they don't have.

And neither side understands the other.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 20 minutes ago

I have plenty of things, and still support pretty left wing ideas (except for the violence that some people here seem think is required to be considered left).

[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

Ayn Rand has entered the chat.

[-] djsiete@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 hours ago

What do you want to say, exactly?

[-] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

They don't understand either side.

[-] dreamy 1 points 22 minutes ago

That leftism is a product of ressentiment from people who don't have "things" against people who have "things", I guess. ContraPoints-level take tbh.

I hate billionaires, not because I want to be a miserable sociopath with too much money, but because they are largely the reason that any kind of improvement to our planet and species is being blocked. I support socialized healthcare, not because I envy those who have the money to pay for live-saving healthcare, but because I don't want to fucking die, etc. etc.

There certainly are people like BadEmpanada, who oppose unions and welfare so that "first-worlders can suffer", but they certainly don't reflect what leftism is in general.

BE

[-] djsiete@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 minutes ago

I understood that tbh. I just wanted the person to say it in their own words...

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

Isn't it funny how people who "have food" are less likely to be all that interested in leftism. And those who don't have "food" look at them, want more leftism because they want want the "food" the people who have "food" and they don't have.

It's still garbled, but makes a better point.

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