@fingers between COVID and AI, a generation of students have been deprived of a major chunk of the educational foundation they need for becoming functional adults. Universities are already reporting a shocking increase in students arriving without the basic math and reading skills to pass coursework. What is going to happen to a generation of young people who were deprived of a decent education education and now of even the skill of learning itself? I'm really worried for them, as well as for societies built on the premise that the old can be financially supported by the wages, taxes, and caregiving time of the young.

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