Comments by "pongop" (@pongop) on "How Social Media Keeps You Poor!" video.

@ernststravoblofeld Lol that's what I was going to comment. Schools were originated to create good factory workers and soldiers, to make money for the business owners. Schools have bells and the 8-4/9-5 schedule because factories had bells and this schedule. The school system is more capitalist, especially if you look at college, and the increasing costs and how schools are run like businesses, maximizing profit from tuition and fees while delivering a cheaper, lower quality product (education). Schools haven't changed much because as a large institution and pillar of society, the education system is more conservative and resistant to change by nature.
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@musclee-mac8768 You reference ancient Greek education, but that is irrelevant and beside the point. As a history teacher, I can verify that Ming Mongo is correct. The modern education system that we still use today is capitalist in origin and nature. It developed in Prussia in the 1800s and was implemented in the US. It's based on compulsory public schooling that develops children into good factory workers and soldiers in order to make the business owners and government leaders (capitalists) more wealthy. The previous system in the US was mostly private tutors for the wealthy. This didn't make business owners rich enough, and as industrialization and the factory system developed, the modern education system was imported and adapted to make American capitalists more money.
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@musclee-mac8768 What is socialist, however, is toll-free roads and the postal service. So I hope you pay for all the roads you drive on and don't use the freeway or send and receive mail. Cuz then you'd be a big, bad, scary pinko red commie.
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@musclee-mac8768 Of course there are toll roads, bridges, etc. Do you drive exclusively on these? I bet not. Of course there's FedEx and UPS. But I I bet you receive or send mail through the postal service. You depend and rely on, and participate in socialism. I'm just pointing out your hypocrisy. The Cold War and the Red Scare are over. You don't need to be scared of the communist boogeyman. Lol.... lord and savior daddy govt. Hardly. I'm anti-authoritarian. But have fun worshipping the almighty american dollar and pretending your anti-socialist tirade is still relevant.
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I am going to show this to my students soon.
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