I enjoyed this post with my morning coffee. It felt like many a conversation I had with my dearly departed philosophy professor. I look forward to Socrates' take on trusting the outcome of lots tossed in clay jars next week.
Something similar happens in Spain. People with higher education vote more to the right, the more money the less you want to distribute. People with little education vote more to the left, usually less money and more desire to distribute.
Thank you for your comment! But perhaps we need to distinguish education and wealth? Not sure about it. But it seems that the phenomenon you describe works the other way round. In the US statistics, it's the more educated who vote left, while the less educated vote right. But it may be that, as I suspect, education is not the same as wealth. Many educated people are out of a job, or employed in low-income jobs like taxi driving and McDonalds, while wealthy people do not necessarily need to be very educated (successful shop owners, small business owners, real estate agents etc). So we might be looking at different phenomena.
Thank you for your reply. Here in Spain there is a clear relationship between studies and wealth. “According to an EFSE report on early school leaving, men who go to university earn 39% more than those who do not and women 62% more.”
Fun. In today’s society possessing a higher degree gives an individual higher social and capital status. It does not follow that they will not abuse this if gifted a position of power.🐈⬛
Of course! As you say: fun. The article was meant as entertainment more than anything else, although there is a bit of a more serious question at the core of it. I'm not advocating a dictatorship of the educated or the installation of philosopher-kings; but we can still wonder whether, if a large number of educated people endorse one party over another, this can tell us something about the relative merits of one choice over another. Especially in our technological and technocratic societies, where the matters to be decided upon are often very complex: genetic manipulation from crops to humans, pandemic management, AI legislation, the dangers and merits of nuclear power, climate change, and many more. These issues all require quite a lot of specialised knowledge to even be understood and appreciated correctly, so it might be that following expert advice in these areas is not such a bad idea. What do you think?
Nothing to disagree with here. However, it always comes down to the community and how it functions to both recognise and nurture skills and knowledge accrued over time. Who is in charge of judging the truly knowledgeable from vain grandstanders ? Who teaches the teachers ? Thanks for the engaging and quick reply 🐈⬛
I enjoyed this post with my morning coffee. It felt like many a conversation I had with my dearly departed philosophy professor. I look forward to Socrates' take on trusting the outcome of lots tossed in clay jars next week.
Something similar happens in Spain. People with higher education vote more to the right, the more money the less you want to distribute. People with little education vote more to the left, usually less money and more desire to distribute.
I loved the story of Socrates.
Thank you for your comment! But perhaps we need to distinguish education and wealth? Not sure about it. But it seems that the phenomenon you describe works the other way round. In the US statistics, it's the more educated who vote left, while the less educated vote right. But it may be that, as I suspect, education is not the same as wealth. Many educated people are out of a job, or employed in low-income jobs like taxi driving and McDonalds, while wealthy people do not necessarily need to be very educated (successful shop owners, small business owners, real estate agents etc). So we might be looking at different phenomena.
Thank you for your reply. Here in Spain there is a clear relationship between studies and wealth. “According to an EFSE report on early school leaving, men who go to university earn 39% more than those who do not and women 62% more.”
Here the link of EFSE https://www.sociedadyeducacion.org/site/wp-content/uploads/INFORME-GENERAL-AET_WEB_23032021.pdf
Fun. In today’s society possessing a higher degree gives an individual higher social and capital status. It does not follow that they will not abuse this if gifted a position of power.🐈⬛
Of course! As you say: fun. The article was meant as entertainment more than anything else, although there is a bit of a more serious question at the core of it. I'm not advocating a dictatorship of the educated or the installation of philosopher-kings; but we can still wonder whether, if a large number of educated people endorse one party over another, this can tell us something about the relative merits of one choice over another. Especially in our technological and technocratic societies, where the matters to be decided upon are often very complex: genetic manipulation from crops to humans, pandemic management, AI legislation, the dangers and merits of nuclear power, climate change, and many more. These issues all require quite a lot of specialised knowledge to even be understood and appreciated correctly, so it might be that following expert advice in these areas is not such a bad idea. What do you think?
Nothing to disagree with here. However, it always comes down to the community and how it functions to both recognise and nurture skills and knowledge accrued over time. Who is in charge of judging the truly knowledgeable from vain grandstanders ? Who teaches the teachers ? Thanks for the engaging and quick reply 🐈⬛
Very nicely done! Had me in stitches.