> The people vocalizing their opinion by voting for Trump are beyond the age where education can be the key
I hate seeing this meme. It is ageist and makes older people less likely to be hired for even their same jobs.
Old people can still learn to do new things. The problem I see is that a lot of older people do not want to learn new things. Also, old people tend to have obligations such as family/child expenses, residence costs, etc. that they want to be compensated for even at an entry level.
Rural conservatism has a lot to do with preserving tradition, that is, making sure things don't change from the old status quo you loved before.
I didn't mean to imply that older people are incapable of learning.
However, there are substantial barriers to that demographic to return to an education program precisely because it is a "return". Those barriers are far more social than anything else, yet they remain.
I'm not sure which meme is more offensive. That old people can't learn or that old people don't want to learn.
The real problem is that for many old people it's certain they'll never be able to get back to the status (financial, social and professional) they have now if they have to start all over again. As long as there is any promise of them being able to keep doing what they have experience in, that's what they'll aim for.
I speak from anecdote here from my time traveling around middle America, not from an armchair, but I agree that the statement was probably a little too broad.
> As long as there is any promise of them being able to keep doing what they have experience in, that's what they'll aim for.
That's the real education that needs to happen. That job is gone and they're not going to get there. It's gone because the world has changed, the economy has changed. Holding out hope is holding that person back. I had to learn this early in my life, and now I live in two different countries depending on where I'm finding work.
The biggest tragedy in all this is that technological advance harms those it help the most by eliminating unnecessary work. For humankind it is progress, for individual humans it is ruin.
I hate seeing this meme. It is ageist and makes older people less likely to be hired for even their same jobs.
Old people can still learn to do new things. The problem I see is that a lot of older people do not want to learn new things. Also, old people tend to have obligations such as family/child expenses, residence costs, etc. that they want to be compensated for even at an entry level.
Rural conservatism has a lot to do with preserving tradition, that is, making sure things don't change from the old status quo you loved before.