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But one of the big ways in which English-speaking countries are dropping the ball on equality is by making everything depend on university degrees.

We lose the opportunity for people to rise by becoming good plumbers (and then becoming owners of growing plumbing related buisinesses). Instead we try to fake equality by getting more and more students into soft degrees where the graduates still end up working at McDonalds.




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