Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post
It starts at school where the idea is to train people to conform to the status quo which, these days, is working your ass off for less than your efforts are worth until you are 67+ and that will be 70 inside the next 15 years.

It's not slavery but it's not the way it should be, either. It keeps workers chained to dead end jobs. Maybe not the same one throughout a working life but an underpaid and overworked one just the same.
So it’s all rA’s fault! Poor fallible chap’s having a bad few days.
Seriously though, don’t agree. Even in ‘my day’ teachers had no chance of dragging most kids out of mundanity because there was and will always be a genuinely ‘thick’ but also a massive minority with potential but lack of direction, which teachers could/can only do so much to influence but parents very much should

I’d also argue that (too) many opt out of the working population completely with the blessing of an increasingly soft benefit system which favours them over genuine hard working low paid people.