Shell People

I have finally figured out why people pay $30k a year to send their kids to school when they can get the same outcomes (as measured by every single study that compares things such as university entry, salaries, etc) for free.

At private schools they get more training in what I call ‘anti-hypocrisy’ skills; they are given mental armor that protects them against dissonance relating to injustices, inequality, unfairness and other such wordy in/un concepts.

Euphemistically, it’s called ‘preparing them for life’.

It makes for a more facile life, with an unfair advantage in terms of grabbing resources for consumption, but with a sting in the tail; living on the shell and not in it.

Hollow.