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[–] frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

If I recall correctly, Aristotle proposed something like only the educated being able to vote. I think if everyone was guaranteed free access to both a high school and college education, along with all food and living costs covered for anyone studying, then I could see having at least any associates level degree being an okay barrier of entry to voting.

However, such a thing would need to be protected by some unremovable barriers. For instance, education would need to continue receiving appropriate funding, food and other living costs such as renting a room would need to be covered even as the cost for these things change. People with disabilities would need to receive proper accommodations.

A caveat I’ll add is that there would need to be more community colleges built and much more funding for pre-K thru 12th grade as well.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There'd need to be a massive overhaul of the education system. Most people who do graduate still make stupid-ase, self-sabotaging choices.

[–] frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh for sure, there are a lot of different areas in education that need to be changed. We need to go back to teaching people how to think rather than prepping them to just memorize for the test. That’s not even mentioning the issue that AI can have on the learning processes.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 2 weeks ago

I saw a video that part of the problem is that there's a whole generation taught to research and form their own opinions, but weren't taught to differentiate facts from bullshit. I think it was by JJ McCullough.