China just won the reversed opium wars. [Insert based Xi meme]
There is quite literal Opium War going right now (and for few decades in the past) but China has nothing to do with it, it’s waged by the US government against people of US and some other countries mostly in Central and South America.
A few other related ones:
- The confirmed cia program to start the crack epidemic and use it to profit off of and impoverish black communities in the US. Read gary webb - dark alliance for more on that.
- The historical and still ongoing spread of alcohol to native communities in the US.
- The CIA pretty much took over the majority of international drug trade after ww2 via the helliwell plan(modelled on Chiang kai-sheks program) , and used it to fund their covert ops. A lot more on that in williams - operation gladio.
No war but class war.
And not educational content creation either. Most of these kids want to be paid for hot-takes and video game streaming.
Being an astronaut was defo something I idolized as being a kid. Then I got older and realized what it’d take to actually live that life, and the risks involved in rocket travel, and things like muscle dystrophy from being in zero G too long. Not to mention all the schooling and training needed. And it’s all for… not much, really. Like, at the end of the day, space travel does not actually help humanity that much. Now, satellites have certainly changed things a shit ton, but like, we’re not going to other planets anytime soon. We’re not gathering resources from other planets. We’re not terraforming. Our “going to outer space” is parking your ass in a station in orbit and living with reduced QoL while you run experiments in zero-G. Just like, nah, fuck all that noise.
Doing science in cool jungles sounds much more fun, while being both safer and more if an adventure.
Deep sea seems like about the same risk but closer to home.
I wanted to be free. Maybe next life.
Born too late to explore the oceans.
Born too early to explore the stars.
Born just in time to remind you to hit that like button, share with your friends, and subscribe so you don’t miss a thing.
The West is lost.
We know more about our solar system than our oceans. We might have mapped a bit of the floor, but we don’t know what is between the surface and the ocean floor.
Why don’t scientists just point a telescope at the ocean: are they stupid?
We should send our billionaires down there… for research purposes of course.
“The West”
Sibling what.
that place where the sun sets homie
Would you prefer “the global capitalist oligarchy whose imperial core is centered in Washington; whose children are filled with nihilistic despair as they watch the empire consume its own working class as it previously consumed the victims of its colonial conquests; whose children, as a result, aspire to nothing greater than hedonism and decadence, reflecting the fundamental moral rot at the heart of the tottering edifice”?
Cause I didn’t have the patience to write all that but I can if need be.
I actually don’t think they would prefer that.
They need to run this survey again now that the Chinese space station has an air fryer.
See? UK is a 90% version of USA.
It’s funny when you just read the numbers and it’s like the top pick for a US child is to be 29
Dont worry, they will all be increasing shareholder value
They’d better, the fiduciary responsibility of the corporate entity has the one, and only one requirement.
The cancer, deaths, depression, poverty, oppression, etc. is just for fun!
On the upside, maybe western youngsters value having a personal life they enjoy more.
You can see a mix of escapism and “how do I fast track as much money as possible?”
Thwn I’d expect higher figures for musicians, swayed by the top .01% that suck up all the fame and royalties.
I think they realize it’s quite unlikely to “make it” as a musician.
It’s also obvious just how much work being a musician is. Even a child understands that you can’t just pick up an instrument and play your favorite song without training. Whereas the work in being a Youtuber/Twitch streamer is hidden from the audience.
18+52+37+47+56=210 for China. Each child could pick up to 3 answers. The average number of jobs the Chinese children picked was 2.
For USA/UK the average was about 1. Very few children selected more than one answer.
That’s weird. What a weird poll. Were there only 5 possible choices? I would have told you I wanted to be a veterinarian at that age, if I answered at all. (I did not become a vet, I became a failure lmao)
I think it’s pretty obvious this is a subset of the answers.
So it seems like, given 3 picks, only 1% of kids are choosing YouTuber as an option. That doesn’t really seem ridiculous.
Edit: it’s 3000 kids total, not per country. So I guess 3% if these are the only 3 countries included.
This poll annoyed me so much I googled it. It’s just a really shitty poll. There is no reason to believe the 5 listed jobs is a subset of the answers. This is an infographic summarizing a single question from a survey that seems to be commissioned by LEGO.
Article from the “Harris Poll”
I couldn’t find like, an academic paper describing the poll. There’s no methodology for it I can find. It’s just some corporate fluff piece, frankly.
So I guess 3% if these are the only 3 countries included
Yep, only 3 countries. This is just a trash poll.
I just figured if 3000 people responded, they should have 9000 picks. Since we only see a few hundred it seemed like it’s a very small subset of the total answers.
Very shitty poll indeed.
Friend, the totals are percentages, not absolute counts
HOLY SHIT. Please no one pay attention to me
It’s also possible that these aren’t all of the available answers and they only selected the ones they thought are interesting.
It says all the children were given an option to pick up to 3 answers. Given the small sample size, it’s likely there were questioned by the same person and that person didn’t convey that to children properly.
Or they are all very focused on only 1 path.
It says all the children were given an option to pick up to 3 answers.
Mmhmm, I also noticed that, which is why it’s the second sentence in my post.
Given the small sample size
It’s a survey of 3,000? It’s still possible that only one person was giving the survey to the Chinese students.
But yeah, it does look like the Chinese students got different instructions or had them explained differently or something. Just a strange poll.
You need to give yourself more credit. You didn’t become a failure, it was within you the whole time; you were always a failure…
That concludes my Pep Talk®
I wanted to be an electrical engineer, then I saw all the math and settled for electrician, then I saw all the math and settled for Janitor
How are Electricians needing to do so much math? Its basic calculator and lookup table stuff? I mean a janitor does more complication calculations when they dilute cleaning products and estimate how much they will need for a given room.
Unfortunate, i know lots of engineers who never learned math.
Not an engineer but I took calculus 1, 2, 3, discrete math, linear algebra, statics, dynamics, and probably others I’m forgetting.
Since school, I needed one trig function for calculating distance between lat/long coordinates that I looked up on Wikipedia and plugged in to a program.
… Statics was fucking cool though.
Statics is good fun. That was one of those courses i spent 40-50hrs a week on.
That knowledge is great for other applications too. For example, it helps with visualizing of how tension laid in fallen trees on saw crews for trail maintenance.
I still use statics at work but i could in theory get by with just basic FEA guess and check.
I wanted to be a naval pilot engineer at four. I’m colorblind, terrified of heights, not fond of authority, sloppy, and scatterbrained as hell. It’s quite possibly the worst possible job for me. To be fair, part of the reason was that I hated the word “bellybutton” and thought anyone who said ”navel” instead had the right idea, so it’s not like I really understood that part of it.
Man, I really can’t get why ppl hate math.
If it doesn’t make sense, it sucks
Math is mostly taught as theory. It should be taught in practice.
Teaching people how to calculate an inventory, or taxes in a spreadsheet, is much more useful than teaching them differentials and number theory.
Its like teaching people carpentry but never having them make anything with it. You just quiz them on which tool and material they need to use.
I get where you’re coming from but i have to disagree. What your describing is not math but econ, a different subject. Math is about how to calculate stuff with least effort.
"I’m not seeing the ROI on these “teachers”, China.
Have you thought about AI?"
Ex-crypto bros everywhere.
What a fucking stupid poll.
Pre-COVID. I wonder what it’s like now. Anecdotes from people who work in education seem to say it was pretty devastating for child development, but it’s hard to tell if it’s above and beyond the perennial “this new generation is totally fucked” sentiment.
