Ideas for Tomorrow | Steve Case and J.D. Vance

[@sfkid57]

i really like what they are talking about, i am 63yrs old with a learning disability which makes reading,writing, and math very hard. i believe that the education system is still build around and for people who are educationally coordinated. so many people are not educationally coordinated which makes things hard for them i believe. i quit a job at 35yrs old to go to college thinking i could do better than just being a laborer, that is where i found out that a i have a learning disability. i tried doing the college thing but being educationally coordinated i failed all my classes. i took an ESL phonics class three times before i passed, i was the only native english speaker. people would ask why was i taking this class, i couldn't explain what a learning disability was. i am very intelligent and have been a lifelong learner, but i still can't read about above a six grade level and i spell at about 4 grade level. i am only am to write this because of voice-to-text on my smartphone. so the education system doesn't work for so many of us. yet without higher education on a resume most people will never even look at a person. to better myself some kind of degree, certificate or whatever it might be is just about impossible for me to pass any kind of test. i have taken civil service tests and failed when with many years of experience in the job category. test are written by educationally coordinated people for other educationally coordinated, people like me who are not educationally coordinated we don't have a chance. please addresses this issue in your travels. rob

[@bearclawhogs44]

Good comment, Rob!

[@hnttakata713]

Steve Case, a good family.

[@hnttakata713]

The working class hero is everywhere; yet the people of power do not really care. Until the extreme wealth of capitalism helps lift up, reinvest in those industries that create decent jobs and opportunity, this conversation is as good as beating a dead horse.

[@hnttakata713]

Emotional and economic poverty is everywhere; empathy is not.

[@martykimble9999]

Smart city's. Hmmmm... I wonder what they feel about this today?