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Old 09-21-2008, 05:03 PM   #48
Godslayer Jillian
 
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Originally Posted by JCC
The idea that all subjects should be compulsory or all of the ones you choose nurtures a society of mediocre jack-of-all-trades, rather than a great number of people well-skilled in different areas, and the latter is what's needed.
Oh, yeah, there's nothing better than division of labor.
The latter you're defending is nothing but a capitalist technique of divide-and-conquer.
You get each person to become heavily specialized in one sole facet, and you alienate everyone.
Engineer build weapons because they are not trained nor paid to think about their effects.
Political scientists can't think of alternative societies because they wouldn't know the first thing about administration.
Marketing majors fuck up the lives of endless consumers because it's not important for them to know what they're selling.
These endless consumers won't know how much they're being fucked because they're pressured to focus in the labor aspects of their lives - someone else will take care of their commodities.
And endless producers will be forever exploited, for society will still need people that heavily specialize in service and maintenance and resource extraction, which closes them the doors for better opportunities.

Nice society.
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