Fuck AI

Everyone in an area, barring diagnosed disability requiring special education, should go to the same PUBLIC schools to develop empathy with other Americans, to have similar academic starting points if even a partial “meritocracy” is something we’d like to try to actually aspire to, and to reverse rich parents having no skin in the game and forcing them to advocate FOR public schools with their power rather than lobby to further destroy them for tax cuts because being greedy sociopaths is kind of their thing.

In theory, I'm right there with you. Everyone should go to the "Good School". But then I'm sitting here in HISD, watching Mike Miles tear the fucking wiring out of the walls specifically to Own The Libs in Harris County for daring to elect a few municipal democrats. And I can't help think, "Maybe forcing people to go to these child warehouses and low-grade torture facilities is bad aktuly".

In a country where intelligent and hard working children are lost to schools we starved to cut wealthy sociopath’s taxes, while dynasty entitled nitwits like George W Bush and Donald Trump literally cannot fail despite barely being able to walk without tripping on their own shoes, trying just makes one a sucker.

I feel this in my bones. But I also recognize this as a consequence of social networks that are built up over generations. It isn't as though Bush and Trump (or Obama or Clinton) just appeared at the top of the administrative hierarchy by accident. They climbed (or were carried) through vast webs of political advocacy groups and donors and religious organizations.

Trying doesn't make you a sucker. But understanding what you're trying to accomplish (and who will assist/oppose your efforts) is important when you're trying to gauge what will be successful or worthwhile.

Elon partied his way through Stanford and now he's one of the richest men on Earth. He built up a big bench of rich friends in Silicon Valley by getting all of them laid.

Bush Jr went to Yale after he couldn't get into UTexas, earned his Gentlemen's C, then ran off to become a millionaire with all his Saudi friends before running for Congress.

Gates and Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard once they got into the right business clubs. They raised enormous sums of money overnight for their projects and got them sold top shelf when it came time to IPO.

Admittance to the university means getting access to the right people. That's what gives you the launch pad into the upper eschalons of society. GPA isn't what matters at this level.