I wish to emphasize that this is one of those "Difficult to appreciate from the outside, extraordinarily obvious from the inside" facts about the tech industry.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1087590716887334913 …
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A thing underappreciated in our social class is that reading for leisure is an extremely niche activity and that our estimation of the population's literacy is much higher than tests would measure it.
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Yes agreed strongly with these. To add some more. Like paving the roads--we spent a huge amount of energy enforcing and setting strong norms for literacy on entire population, which had high returns
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Agreed. Though the past 20 years have seen the reverse happen (and for writing and photography).
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