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It lowered education standards and tied funding to kids passing classes, so pretty much an entire generation (two? at this point - z and alpha) passed classes they wouldn’t have before. As a result you have kids graduating high school who can’t read or do basic math.

Half the country reads below a sixth grade level and a fifth of the country is functionally illiterate. This is intentional. A stupid gullible population that’s intellectually stunted, incurious, and fed a constant diet of propaganda via billionaire owned social media is going to do whatever their rulers want them to do and not put up a fight or any resistance at all. There’s a reason they funded STEM and defunded art and the humanities - they wanted the “smart ones” to be smart enough to work the machines but too dumb to question anything as to why. See the rise of technofascism for an example of what that leads to. The tech industry is full of know nothing geniuses who know how to code but don’t have any context as to why what they’re doing is wrong.

Idiocracy was supposed to be a comedy but it looks like it was prescient.