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To me the ability to read a whole book is a competitive advantage in the job market.




For what industries?

Any job position requiring intelligence and nuance which unavoidably stems from informing yourself.

But the same will inevitably make you hating the capitalism which eventually makes you not better candidate on the market but worse.

>But the same will inevitably make you hating the capitalism

If anything, reading has made me recognize the cultural and historic universality of the problems folks attribute to capitalism.


Sorry, I meant reading books.

I hate capitalism but I don't make the rules so play the game anyway.

Saying everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot, that just hasn't found enlightenment is not a good argument. A sizable portion of people will have the opposite revelation.

I for one think people still thinking socialism is a good thing, haven't read enough history books about the 20th century.


Any. Even if you're doing a blue collar job, understanding the fundamentals (or at least the specifics about a particular subfield) makes you "the guy" and adds some job security. As a programmer I often got ahead just because I'd read all of the C standard library, the Windows API docs, etc.



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