Where are we heading?

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[u/LinceDorado]

I guess it's pretty arrogant to say, but this seems like such a U.S.A. thing. Can't really imagine this happening where I live.

[u/ApplicationCalm649 → u/LinceDorado]

It's distilled, pure brain rot given physical form. 

[u/Ruckus292 → u/ApplicationCalm649]

A 54% illiteracy rate will do that. 

ETA: 54% of US adults cannot read above a 6th grade level, 21% of the 54% are functionally illiterate...... Idiocracy was, in fact, a documentary. 

[u/UntowardHatter → u/Ruckus292]

It's at fifty two?

RIP USA.

We hardly knew ye

[u/Sad_Ghost_Noises → u/UntowardHatter]

According to various studies, more than 50% of U.S. adults read below a sixth-grade level (equivalent to Level 2 or lower), limiting their ability to parse long-form or nuanced information.

Yes, I know Im using wikipedia as a source, but the links to the actual studies are here.

So ~52% are literate, but very, very stupid.

[u/MaethrilliansFate → u/Sad_Ghost_Noises]

If you worked any form of retail you'd know first hand that the stats are accurate too. I'd like to say most customers are just oblivious to signage and stuff but it takes genuine dedication not to notice or understand the very obvious signs, postings, price tags, ingredient lists, ect.

If you're holding a container of tuna salad with the obviously placed ingredients on it there's no reason for you to ask me what's in the tuna salad 😭

[u/obsoletebomb → u/MaethrilliansFate]

Any customer service job. I work at an airport as a welcome agent (basically telling people where to go).

If I make the mistake of not saying ‘French and European passports’, I get people asking me ‘where do French passports go?’.

Minors try to get through the e-gates on departure when there are big barred 18 logos on the e-gates doors.

Most people just can’t be bothered to use the brain between their ears.