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the whole "what job are you gonna get with a gender studies degree, barista?" argument is a really interesting microcosm of utilitarian philosophy and its influence on the education system. Under an optimal utilitarian capitalist framework, every expenditure of effort is an investment for which we should reap returns and any allocation for non-monetary interests is misplaced. Effectively, "There is nothing worth having that doesn't generate money and therefore create value." Art degrees are viewed as frivolous and delegitimized within this outlook because if college is a monetary "investment" and the only "profit" generated or created through this is intangible knowledge that you use to create non-monetary public works which anyone can access for free, or informational or scholarly work published for the publics benefit, well lets just say you aren't paying off the monetary investment, because you can't pay it off with knowledge or art. This is why college is framed as "take on debt, make an investment in your future salary." Throughout grade school students are encouraged to learn and explore and be creative, then college pulls the rug out from under you, declaring "welcome to the world kid your efforts don't matter if they don't pay rent and cover your cost of living." Banks wait for the students still carrying their momentum of creativity and outside of the box thinking so carefully instilled within them, and they offer large loans, aware that overly eager and uneducated students excited to explore their passions, will have not yet realized the world doesn't see their interests as economically viable, and actively sees them as a fool for falling for it. Debt is an investment, a deposit in the student, which they must then pay off by conforming to profit generation and neglecting the non-monetary. K-12 create students with dreams, then college and loans either drain their interests for interest or crush the same dreams they encouraged and led them to develop. This is an economic system functioning as intended to encourage passive monetary generation for the wealthy and punish the scholarly and artistic through a framework of utilitarian optimization. Through which money is seen as valuable, while intangible intellectual and insightful art are seen as insignificant, and instead money making positions are seen as "real jobs." Legitimized by their tangible profits in stark contrast to the theoretical ideological profit of research or art. This happens because money is only a signifier of value, À la "the treachery of images." Money looks like "value" and we treat it like value, the wealthiest people are seen as the "most moral, hardest working, bestest boys!" who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps to usher in wealth for us all! While the people who work hard to study, research, and make beautiful art for the public for free are delegitimized. Unless youre the woke black sheep in your family, this is a framework a significant amount of people still subscribe to. So no, your parents arent gonna let you go to college for gender studies. It's not a good investment, sorry kiddo, welcome to the "real world" hope you can find a "real job" wherein real means, remains complacent in the system responsible for this and generates profit for the wealthy, because if it doesn't, is it even real?

billionaires are like the guys who used creative mode to spawn in diamonds on the minecraft smp. like dude im not gonna play with you anymore the worlds like tainted now because of you we gotta start all over again

born to be 5'6" forced to be 5'11"

pirating adobe is like stealing a used car that you're still gonna have to replace every 3 months by stealing a new used car. Also you can just get a perfectly functional car for free through open source.

why didnt I know sam altman was gay. I just. like that doesnt excuse the building the anti christ ai god, but i feel like I should have known he was gay and like. has a husband.

plot twists have expiration dates. give a potent plot twist enough time, legacy, and cultural relevancy- and suddenly its embedded itself into the collective unconscious regarding media consumption. We all know darth is lukes father, but if you're gen Z you were born knowing only reflections of this plot twist, exclusively absorbed through osmosis. Exposed more to parodies, reactions, and imitations, rather than the actual reveal. Theres a grace period for spoilers, and it ends when the twist becomes so immeshed in culture that it escapes containment, breaches franchises to become cultural phenomena.

bouillon cubes are the bath bombs of the working class

in 2026 ally culture is dead. putting your pronouns in your bio isn't enough. If you aren't fighting with us, be it through protesting, supporting, or loudly advocating for us, you are complacent in our murder. "ally-ship" isn't passive.

quest as slang for question

garlic is like if fruits were fractals

radical chalance

imagine a social media site where its all art and artists and it has no algorithm and its not a social media site and its called a public library

so much of media analysis is just "i did not like it therefore it was bad." not everything was made to appeal to you.

every app should let you block subjects. Tech companies jam these algorithms down our throats and we are forced to live with what they show us and expected to be content. On youtube you can only mark "block channel" which, for some reason, does not work constantly, or you may click "Not Interested" which does even less! Am I expected to block every channel that makes this content? or subject myself to the content enough that it understands finally not to show me it. There are channels on youtube which talk about upsetting issues, these thumbnails can be frustrating or triggering for people, sure they should be allowed, but we should be able to opt out of seeing subjects we dont want to! especially people who are sensitive towards that. But instead, profitable and dangerous content is forced onto us, without any control over what we see, because that makes the companies the most money.