2026-04-20 15:30 UTC
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.
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@veeesix@lemmy.ca 2026-04-20 16:10
I originally interpreted the lyrics as a view of commodified education where the prerequisite for a lot of jobs nowadays require a degree or two just to get past the AI review process. I didn’t mean to come off as knocking the pursuit of higher education. I mean I probably deserve it quoting a Kanye song! My wife has applied for her Masters next year, and I’m looking into the process of upgrading my advanced diploma into a degree myself. It just makes me laugh with frustration at how the ladder for success keeps adding rungs the higher you climb it.