UniversalBasicJustice

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Cake day: January 29th, 2026

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  • Except they are categorically not useless? I’d still be stuck in fuckstick nowhere if they were. So would many others. Thats anecdotal and doesn’t count, though.

    If someone is able to pass enough classes to get a degree without learning anything thats a them problem.

    Now, if one wants to call degrees a poor value proposition?

    Also wrong. Just because the US hasn’t had a coherent fiscal policy since before Reagan and has allowed tuition to skyrocket while milking the students for all they’re worth still doesn’t make the degree useless.

    Learning is not useless. If someone doesn’t learn anything in 4 years and accepts that degree? They’re at fault.

    If the argument is that degrees are useless because they don’t guarantee employment you can find my response at the top of this comment chain.

    WHY DO I HAVE TO CONVINCE PEOPLE HIGHER LEARNING IS AN ADMIRABLE PURSUIT REGARDLESS OF THE JOB PROSPECTS






  • Exactly my point. We (royal we, referring to a large proportion of US inhabitants) pay a privately owned corporation for services essential to living. They are allowed to extract profit via rate hikes and service cuts and are additionally allowed to develop monopolies. Dead people are a sacrifice private industry is willing to make in pursuit of profit (see: American death ensurance).

    The “separate but equal” Texan electrical grid is a textbook example of why utilities management should remain under the purview of a publicly-accountable governing body. My quip is dark because people died. Its also true. Its meant to quietly challenge the concept that a government levying taxes is tyrannical.





  • Couple things.

    Firstly; just because they are well-paid does not imply they have the means to survive without employment. In fact that places them far closer to you and I than to somebody capable of living solely off the labor of others. Additionally, large tech companies utilize H1B visas as a form of coercion for both the visa holder and the other employees.

    Secondly; you open your first paragraph with

    Nobody working at facebook has any illusions

    But open paragraph #2 with

    Many are starting to wake up

    Those two statements contradict each other.

    That’s not my point, though! My point is; blame the goddamn reptilian tech bro billionaire and the shareholders. Blame the government that allows Meta to exist at all. Blame the dysfunctional and cancerous-at-best socioeconomic systems that allow either to exist.

    Or, to put it more succinctly; don’t hate the player, hate the game.