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The american education system is absolutely insane—paying to get fucked!

EVERYTHING in America is designed to fuck you as hard as possible unless you can pay. Literally everything is about incentivizing you to give as much of your personal cash up as possible to lessen the shit being shoveled onto you.

This is what happens when you abandon people and enshrine "greed is good" as a National philosophy for 40 years.

Unfortunately, like seemingly every aspect of North American culture, this philosophy is being exported and accepted in other countries too, like Egypt as one example.

“Patterns of behavior that were highly regarded in a more stable society such as sticking to one’s word or promise, pride and personal integrity, are now less prized. Such values are less fit for a rapidly changing society where loyalty to old relationships, be they friends, spouses, places or principles appears as nothing more than an excessive sentimentality unbecoming in one who is on the make.” - Galal Amin, in Whatever Happened to the Egyptians

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