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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
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Again, the whole country benefits from having a healthy work force (if you'll forgive the fact I don't refer to people as people), similarly for education. Exceptions aside, educated people will be more productive, and more able, than uneducated ones. The whole current fear seems to be that all unskilled labor is leaving the USA: the reason GM can't be allowed to die like it should is because the people who worked there have nowhere else to go, because there's nothing else they can do. While I'm not saying we anticipated this whereas you ignored it, I am saying that having 20-30% of the population only capable of manual labor is a waste of resources, if only because they'll need welfare.
The whole point of "outliers" is that they are. Statistics might be deceitfully quoted, but the bell curve doesn't lie, if nothing else. And believing you should only care about the upper outliers means you're creating a culture in which 50-60% of the population will to some extent probably feel un(der)appreciated.
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I agree. I have been trying to figure out to say this, but you did it much better than I ever could
