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Why do I have to think about market forces and corporate politics just to buy a fucking concert ticket? Can’t we just have a well regulated market that doesn’t constantly treat customers like a resource to be mined?

Because the democrats keep voting against progressives, leaving us with republicans.

In short, it's the culture we want because most us support the miners.

I was just in a hotel last night and a local band was performing for free.

Can you believe that? I didn't have to pay anything, I wasn't even a guest!

But let's be honest, going to shows for most people is so that they can say they went to the show. It's part of the culture of consumption and exclusivity where you need to spend money in order to be part of the conversation.

What information are professors giving you that you can’t get anywhere else?

everything they teach should come from a source other than the professor.

Oh, please tell me what you learned in history that disproves this statement. I'd love to understand how you came out of those courses thinking you can just take people's word at face value.

Edit: Look, I get it. Part of "learning history" isn't even history related at all. It's learning how to understand the information that you have in the context that it was given. You can't just assume that because you read something in a history book that it's automatically true. Hopefully, it opens your eyes to just how little information we can "know" and how difficult it is to obtain even that. (I assume your eyes are already open to this because you took the courses.)

However, none of that requires college in order to learn. It's honestly something that our parents should be teaching us, because it's relevant to considerably more than history.

Sorry you had to pay people tens of thousands of dollars over the course of at least 4 years to teach you that after you've become a legal adult.

I’m just a brainwashed college educated drone.

Admitting it is the first step. You're already ahead of some of these other posters.

It depends on the profession, but for most things people go to college for they can teach themselves.

College ends up being a place where they give you tutorials and walk you through books. If you can do that on your own, why pay thousands of dollars to have someone else hold your hand?

I'll admit, a lot of you people lack self-discipline so you won't learn without someone else forcing you to. In that way, college is a lot like rehab. It's a place for rich people to waste their money because they can't take responsibility for themselves.

But hey, all those smart people attending college can't be wrong, right? It's just not possible?

Imagine how stupid the average idiot would be if it turned out that most people attending college were just partaking in a scam.

Imagine that.

I've recognized there's enough digital entertainment to last me for the rest of my life.

Anyone I see who is constantly playing the newest thing is a loser that is consumed by consumption.

We're going to need a new government to oppose this one.

Quick, let's nominate another establishment Democrat so everyone supporting Trump can be correct in saying Democrats don't care about the working class!