Comments on: Basic literacy and numeracy are virtually the only book learning most American adults possess https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/basic-literacy-and-numeracy-are-virtually-the-only-book-learning-most-american-adults-possess/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gaikokumaniakku https://www.isegoria.net/2026/05/basic-literacy-and-numeracy-are-virtually-the-only-book-learning-most-american-adults-possess/comment-page-1/#comment-3762396 Gaikokumaniakku Sat, 16 May 2026 20:20:38 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=54256#comment-3762396 “In 2003, the United States Department of Education gave about 18,000 randomly selected Americans the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL).”

Of course, these must have been 18,000 randomly selected white Americans, to make a reasonable comparison with the historically white population of the majority of America, right? … right? The ghost of William Shockley is hovering silently over me and shaking his head from side to side in a manner I can only interpret as ominous.

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The labor market pays you for what you know now…

The “labor market” is a centrally planned, authoritarianly organized corporate economy, a free market for employers as against employees, not a free market for employees as against employers.

Fortunately, the Singularity is poised to render mutational load a thing of the past.

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