This guy again. He really sucked
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How dare our slaves be educated and want a revolt over us.
“If not,” Freeman continued, “we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.”
It did turn out that way anyway right
It did, but now they're in debt and can be used as wage slaves.
Trickle down was originally called the Horse and Sparrow theory, because the idea was that if you feed the horses more grain, they'll be more grain for the sparrows to pick out of its shit.
Almost as bad as the worst interpretation of "trickle down economics" I can think of.
Though it's interesting to note that the whole concept does not get better however you try to describe it.
Interesting though the article is from 2022. Germany has free education and a resurgent far right, so IDK what effect the educatioin there has had.
All of Europe has a resurgent far-right. And in many countries it's currently at ~20%, compared to 50% in the US. So there's one big difference.
In other countries the far-right is already governing the country, fully (Italy, Hungary) or partly, unlike in Germany (dodged a bullet this time but let's not get complacent).
There's also other aspects besides education that lead to far-right voting, like unemployment and general Strukturschwäche, i.e. lack of all kinds of infrastructure, prevalent in the Eastern part of Germany. Where most AfD voters come from.
And - though by no means comparable to the US - many European countries do have a problem with education.
I don't think the US is anywhere near 50% far right, despite electing Trump They were sick of the existing establishment and threw it out. That is, they voted on rebel vs establishment lines, without much regard to left vs right, if that makes sense.
Counterpoint: US doesn't have free education but far right pop up like a mushroom anyway.
Trump: Problem solved! What's next?