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Trades aren’t the lifeline of the first world. Also how has Harvard’s prestige fallen? Up until Trump’s war on academia the US has been the undoubted leader of academia in the west. You disagreeing with Harvard doesn’t mean they’re less prestigious.
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Anonymous 16w

Arguably the leader of academia worldwide but Asia has been giving us a run for our money in the past few decades

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Anonymous 16w

I get we’re all happy with this guy cause they’re trying to dunk on a trumper but this is classist. Most people can’t afford to go to college and can afford to go to a trade school, and would be better off if they had the opportunity to learn a trade

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Anonymous replying to -> bongo_fury 16w

Bruh what?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

Building up a dichotomy between academia and the trades and saying academia is essential while the trades are inessential. Rich people can get into an academic institution, and they’ll use a degree to grow pre-existing wealth, while a trade education is available to a greater cross-section of society and can be used to build wealth from a poor background. Both academia and the trades are essential from the perspectives of people who can benefit from their access to them

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

An idea that says the interests of the rich, advanced by academia, are a “life-blood,” while the interests of the poor can be neglected, is a classist idea

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Anonymous replying to -> bongo_fury 16w

No it’s a simple fact that developed countries rely on service based economies while developing countries rely on manufacturing based that’s why oop’s post is stupid because it wants to move us backwards when we’re further advanced. And I never said trades weren’t important that’s a whole ass sentence you made up. Trades are important and if people want to go to trade schools or can only afford that they should do it. 1/2

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Anonymous replying to -> bongo_fury 16w

But to defund other extremely important areas of education to do so when there are far more areas of unnecessary bloat that could be cut instead is ridiculous. It’s not 1945 anymore we don’t rely on the production of goods anymore.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

Just because we moved from being manufacturing economy into being a service economy does not mean that a service economy is inherently more advanced than a manufacturing economy. It also implies that all manufacturing economies will eventually develop into service economies, when the two have a codependent relationship

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

the special divide we see with manufacturing in peripheral areas and services in core areas is a product of the development of modern global capitalism, which is exploitative and hurts everybody in one way or another.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 16w

And I’m not talking about defunding anything. You’re responding to maga and I’m responding to you, but this does not make me maga.

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