• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I live in a city full of very liberal very educated people.

      a huge chunk of them think books are wastes of time and are angry they were forced to read so much during their PhDs/masters/JDs.

      I’ve been on many first dates with a science PhD who tells me reading fiction is stupid and dumb and if I’m reading it should only be for career productivity or self help therapy crap. And oh, btw my degrees in humanities mean I’m a stupid idiot who wasted years of my life reading stupid crap books.

      It’s insane.

      but when you realize these people hate learning, and only like money, it makes a lot of sense. their degrees/educations were not thinks they wanted to do or enjoyed doing, they were brass rings they had to leap through to get money.