Billionaire Ray Dalio of Bridgewater points out why America is increasingly failing to compete with Europe and Asia: “60% of the US population has below a 6th grade reading level. “It’s tough to be productive.” - ThreadSky

chadbourn.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Billionaire Ray Dalio of Bridgewater points out why America is increasingly failing to compete with Europe and Asia: “60% of the US population has below a 6th grade reading level.

“It’s tough to be productive.”

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louishenwood.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Including the President

messmonstergigi.bsky.social•6 hours ago

😂😂😂

khloedawn.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s not going to get any better anytime soon.

karlthebrewer.bsky.social•1 day ago

For about five minutes I've been wracking my brains to think of any mega businesses in Bridgewater, Somerset.

chadbourn.bsky.social•1 day ago

😄

sirgeekalot.bsky.social•1 day ago

Holy 💩! I hope that percentage is wrong.

victorytwin.bsky.social•1 day ago

States have failed to properly fund the public schools and now giving funds to vouchers to homeschool and private schools is grave mistake

mak-nono.bsky.social•1 day ago

That is in fact better than the uk. Absolutely depressing.

andrewbrook.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I have tried to verify that through an online search but can find no information suggesting that literacy is lower in the UK than in the US.

beesboy.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Agree. Wouldn't believe for a minute we are thicker than our US brethren.

exmemoriam.bsky.social•1 day ago

He could easily fix that.

civicdog.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's one of the 60%

hodmanjohn.bsky.social•1 day ago

That explains how an illiterate turd ended up in the White House .... twice.

johnbeverley.bsky.social•1 day ago

I looked it up as being equivalent to an 11-12 year old.

fionaglass.bsky.social•1 day ago

Aha! thanks, you saved me the bother. ;)

corbyntravers.bsky.social•1 day ago

The numbers, broken down:

https://www.wyliecomm.com/2021/08/whats-the-latest-u-s-literacy-rate/

peoplepaula.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hey Dalio, you billionaire POS, you do realize that you could personally increase the pay for every teacher in the U.S. to invite better educators for our children… Right?

mloa.bsky.social•1 day ago

Good thing the dept. of education has been gutted

stevelockley.bsky.social•1 day ago

So 60% of the US population may find it tough to *spell* productive.

b0ltme.bsky.social•1 day ago

I live among a sea of red dots. It's not just that they have no understanding of how anything in the world works. It's that they have zero intellectual curiosity to expand their knowledge, understanding. Any mental discomfort is a stimulus to shut down and accept a short slogan as an explanation.

emptybagofducks.bsky.social•1 day ago

My high school English teacher son can validate that data as he writes his Master’s thesis

paultempleman.bsky.social•6 hours ago

This is way below the reading level of people of the USSR in the eighties.

isensiel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Things like Chat-GPT have been a complete disaster for this. Now so many people go to AI to do their thinking for them and they barely even understand what the AI is even telling them.

tinavstammy.bsky.social•1 day ago

*nods fervently*

Seen in the Bluesky wild: An entire *law professor* saying, "So I asked Goggle [sic] AI..."

He thought it was an encyclopedia!

katekilla.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yep. It’s appalling.

rcopelander.bsky.social•1 day ago

Defunding public schools, attacking teachers, and raising ignorance as a virtue will do that to a society. And only one political party did that, republicans.

corbyntravers.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yup

ellisb77.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Mass ignorance is a valuable commodity for demagogues but isn’t of any use whatsoever to wider society.

tweet-by-sea.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ray Dallo was much more polite ...

tinavstammy.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's right.

So what's he doing to help?

blackbirdsing.bsky.social•1 day ago

Simultaneously the US billionaire class fund the Trump regime who are scrapping the dept of education closing and defunding libraries and museums, sanctioning universities and ridiculing scientists and experts and handing themselves another yuge tax cut
These fuckers keep the people poor and dumb.

ysteinottesen.bsky.social•1 day ago

A perfect country for low level manufacturing jobs. a True banana republic

eyegah.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ok…and yet we’re a country of the best universities and have been leaders in technology and creative industries for decades. Billionaires really think they’re holding the world together with their IQs. They can’t see through the haze of their egos.

steviegogo.bsky.social•1 day ago

60% of the American population aka 60% of the American electorate.

carlabela1.bsky.social•1 day ago

😮

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