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2 days agoEvaluating a six year old based on their likelihood to perform as a worker is deeply fucked up, and identifying them for “help” to become employable is not what they need.
It’s addressing a problem from a backward position. Underemployment is objectively a problem with availability of work paying livable wages, so a reasonable solution would be addressing that fault, not pigeonholing children based on their likelihood to contribute to GDP.
I think you and I are on the same page, but everything I know about this country and government has stripped me of your optimism.