Modern capitalism is heavily focused on transforming human knowledge into objective forms (source code, physical machinery, design schematics, etc). Once objectified, it can be alienated from workers and owned by the capitalists, in order to secure ever more control. At that point it is to the advantage of capital to make the workforce as uneducated as possible; the perfect worker is one who knows only how to push a button and how to consume products.

“Another consequence of the use of machinery was that it entirely changed the relations of the capital of the country. Formerly there were wealthy employers of labour, and poor labourers who worked with their own tools. They were to a certain extent free agents, who had it in their power effectually to resist their employers. For the modern factory operative, for the women and children, such freedom does not exist, they are slaves of capital.

“There was a constant cry for some invention that might render the capitalist independent of the working man; the spinning machine and power-loom has rendered him independent, it has transferred the motive power of production into his hands. By this the power of the capitalist has been immensely increased.” - speech by Marx

I’m guessing the argument is more along the lines of “just talk to a chatbot and learn from that instead of taking out $250k in loans to get a degree.”

generational transfer of skills and knowledge

this is just one thing capitalists think they can keep civilization functional without. Otherse include water, air, food lol. Wtf world are we living in.

why isn’t it “rappeur” in the fr*nch “language”

Will I. Am. teaches classes on AI business at some college. He recently launched a product that’s a CityEl with an AI chatbot installed and the atari logo printed on it.

Fun but unrelated facts.

this picture is missing some spaghetti somewhere

Hawaiian punch got too expensive, now it’s kool-aid packets from dollar tree and hose water through the basement window

My classmate who googled “Themes in Moby Dick” on his phone five minutes before class started

That’s been the case for a while now, even before ChatPooPeePee

Kids never showing up, and coasting their way through because a professor is neutered by admin into passing pretty much everyone or they’ll face consequences / deal with a huge headache of students crying and getting the dean involved.

I have two STEM degrees now, and for my undergrad I saw students hiring people on Fiverr to take their exams for them during the pandemic. The Saudi foreign exchange students were the most egregious, hiring people to take their in-person exams for them.

I remember an upper-level lab we had, where the first 3 weeks of class was the professor assisting kids with setting up an Ubuntu image on VirtualBox. A lot of the rich kids had the new Macs with M1 chips, even though the university clearly stated hardware requirements, and instead of failing these kids for not reading the university OR syllabus requirements, they got a free pass.

All these universities are for-profit institutions, they don’t care about how incompetent the students they push into the workforce are, as long as they get their money.