An Outlook I Find Very Hard To Understand

[ippy]

I wonder if we can recast our whole recent political past in terms of rule by people packed off to boarding school at a time when most others could go home each night to some kind of family life.

I'm feeling a bit dizzy, I must be dreaming, I agree with Vlad, I've already made an appointment just in case, think I'll have a whisky followed by a wisky. 

Regards to you Vlad, a good one, ippy

[bluehillside Retd.]

Hi ipster,

I'm feeling a bit dizzy, I must be dreaming, I agree with Vlad, I've already made an appointment just in case, think I'll have a whisky followed by a wisky.

That's the thing with inductive reasoning - just because he's been wrong about almost everything he's ever posted doesn't necessarily mean he'll be wrong about something else too. Black swans and all that.

Enjoy the whisk(e)y though 

[ippy]

Hi ipster,

That's the thing with inductive reasoning - just because he's been wrong about almost everything he's ever posted doesn't necessarily mean he'll be wrong about something in future. Black swans and all that.

It's the sudden shock that did it, good job I'm retired, going to work tomorrow after that?

Regards ippy

[bluehillside Retd.]

ippy,

It's the sudden shock that did it, good job I'm retired, going to work tomorrow after that?

Especially if work involved operating heavy machinery. Doesn't bear thinking about 

[SteveH]

Perhaps people should be vetted (pun intended) to determine if they are suitable to have children. It would certainly improve the lot of the children that were born if only people with the financial resources to bring up a child were allowed to and if they could demonstrate a commitment to the child's welfare.

I can't see it ever happening though.

https://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/modest.html

[jeremyp]

Get real. I come from an affluent household and my parenting was shit.

Individual cases do not invalidate, what is quite a strong correlation. And it's not being really wealthy. Just having middle class professional class parents confers an enormous advantage.

So what do you advocate then? Compulsory abortions for women on benefits?

Don't be stupid. I'm not advocating anything, I'm asking uncomfortable questions to try to make people think.

[SteveH]

Perhaps people should be vetted (pun intended) to determine if they are suitable to have children. It would certainly improve the lot of the children that were born if only people with the financial resources to bring up a child were allowed to and if they could demonstrate a commitment to the child's welfare.

I can't see it ever happening though.

How about political action to make sure thsat everyone does have the resources to bring up children?

[ippy]

ippy,

Especially if work involved operating heavy machinery. Doesn't bear thinking about 

You're not going to sweet talk me into building you one of my specialist tree walkways, it's not going to happen.

Regards ippy

[SteveH]

You're not going to sweet talk me into building you one of my specialist tree walkways, it's not going to happen.

Regards ippy

[bluehillside Retd.]

ippy,

You're not going to sweet talk me into building you one of my specialist tree walkways, it's not going to happen.

Pretty please?

[Udayana]

Individual cases do not invalidate, what is quite a strong correlation. And it's not being really wealthy. Just having middle class professional class parents confers an enormous advantage.
Don't be stupid. I'm not advocating anything, I'm asking uncomfortable questions to try to make people think.

Make people think what ...? What is the objective here? The purpose of having children is ... to get an invitation to a graduation ceremony?

How does being bought a good education correlate with the level of existential suffering?

[ippy]

Make people think what ...? What is the objective here? The purpose of having children is ... to get an invitation to a graduation ceremony?

How does being bought a good education correlate with the level of existential suffering?

Finland has one of the highest world standards of state schooling and so I've heard private schooling isn't allowed there.

Regards ippy

[SusanDoris]

I'm feeling a bit dizzy, I must be dreaming, I agree with Vlad, I've already made an appointment just in case, think I'll have a whisky followed by a wisky. 

Regards to you Vlad, a good one, ippy

Vlad has that one mitigating factor! His posts pre-Brexit were really sensible. Such a pity so many of the others are not!!

[Udayana]

Finland has one of the highest world standards of state schooling and so I've heard private schooling isn't allowed there.

Regards ippy

From the non-sequitur, I assume the whisky has had the desired effect.

Finland was top in the  2018 World Happiness Report:

All the top countries tend to have high values for all six of the key variables that have been found to support well-being: income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity.

So, probably happiness is not related to who pays for education or actual educational attainment, so much as living in a caring society.   

But then we also need to link doing well in metrics for well-being with "life being worth living" - the countries that do well in the Happiness Report also have high rates of alcoholism and suicide.