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Do you really think our problem is lack of STEM education tho? are you sure increasing our production rate would benefit our world? last time I checked that line of thought called Modernism and overproduction led humanity to WW1 & 2. Our grandparents tried to warn us their every waking moments but we forgot about it almost up to people in their 70 years old. It's only in books now... and it's very scary seeing people unironically saying this

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I regret emphasizing stem in my comment. I meant to offer it as an example of the kind of education that may be valuable. I don't see increasing production rate as the end goal, nor any other kind of "line goes up" political objective. I recognize human flourishing happens at the confluence of factors.

Nevertheless, I see the connection as follows: we are forced to play nice with enemy nations because of our economic independence on them: we turn a blind eye to what fentanyl did to the middle/lower classes largely because nationally we have our own addiction to Chinese products. We could significantly reduce our dependency by producing homespun expertise, despite it being less efficient. I value independence first of all.

Re: modernism, I'm not qualified to comment, but I expect that's just one perspective on the causes of those wars.

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