• UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Privatisation hounds do the same shit all over: enshittify a public service then offer a private alternative as a kind of shitty trojan savoir to the problem they created

    • SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Because it isn’t? It’s up by about 6%. The numbers are more accurate as well.

      Frankly, even if your statement was correct, it would be the equivalent of asking why only people who go to the doctor have cancer.

      Lastly, if we are throwing out random facts and trying to extrapolate the value of a system, why is Cuba’s literacy rate always close to 100%?

    • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyz
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      Probably some combination of our definition of literacy being adjusted, and the availability of more accurate data about populations and how educated they are.

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        1 year ago

        The bastians of the homeschooling movement that allows household chores to be considered curriculum because of a campaigned for lack of oversight is also where there are low literacy rates? Say it isn’t so…