• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    Must be an American thing

    Yup. The world headquarters of capitalism is notorious for shortchanging anyone who’s passionate and/or idealistic enough about their profession to put up with it.

    Plus the obscenely rich and powerful want to discourage learning, since a well informed and engaged populace would spell doom for everything that enables their excesses and abuse.