2026-04-20 12:43 UTC
This sort of reminds me of that Kanye West School Spirit Skit about learning:
_You keep it going man, you keep those books rolling \
You pick up those books you're going to read \
And not remember, and you roll man \
You get that associate's degree, okay \
Then you get your bachelor's, then you get your master's \
Then you get your master's masters \
Then you get your doctorate\
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You go man, and then when everybody says quit \
You show them those degrees man \
When everybody says, "hey, you're not working \
"You're not making any money" \
You say, "look at my degrees and you look at my life \
Yeah, I'm 52, so what?"\
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Hate all you want \
But I'm smart, I'm so smart, and I'm in school \
These guys are out here, huh \
Making money all these ways, and I'm spending mine to be smart \
You know why? \
Because when I die, buddy \
You know what's gonna keep me warm? \
That's right, those degrees_
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@whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-20 15:30
This reads like someone heard "the unexamined life is not worth living" and responded with "nuh uh, why should I learn anything if I'm fighting for survival" like an education doesn't help at all, might as well condemn everyone to a life of subsistence farming. The only reason we're able to specialize into roles like rappers and doctors and engineers is because of education. Don't mistake the mechanisms of academic bureaucracy and economics with the pursuit of truth and knowledge.