I think this is happening in no small part because "an education" is treated entirely as a commodity. It's not a thing you want for its own sake, it's the thing you need to have to even begin to be able to apply to entry-level positions and secure ANY kind of income or chance of upward mobility.
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Even cheating on a test itself feels less guilty when you know everyone in your class is doing it.
Degrees are commodities, but they are commodities whose value is functionally nil in the marketplace. Necessary investments, but not valuable ones.
But the commodification of education is a constant counter-pressure saying "fuck learning, fuck understanding. You need a diploma so you can go start living your REAL life"
Yeah, no shit they cheat.
It felt like everything I did was a waste of time.
It is the technology of alienating you from your own mind, your thinking, your creativity, your process, your self.
ChatGPT synthesizes information for you
Midjourney does art for you
Zuckerberg wants to make AI friends to do your social life for you
But the struggles and failures of getting a career and any sense of stability through it under capitalism kills the passion faster than anything else
I have a Masters, and now my passion for the field is dying because of capitalism