Wyatt Cenac

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Panic World · Bad things happen when we let robots decide what’s good · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I remember when we were working on the second season of Problem Areas, we spent the season looking at education.

One of the things when we were

doing prep for that season that we often found ourselves talking about was the way in which teachers are seen in America versus outside of America and how in Japan,

profession of teaching is one that is treated with respect and that there's there's a genuine respect that people have for teachers as a profession and some of that is is gendered and that in the us as more women became teachers that it it lost some of that that idea of respect it then became

quote unquote, women's work.

And so it lost a certain standing and respect that it once had.

But also as it lost that respect, it lost a certain value and it became much easier then to

pay teachers less and to kind of be okay with teachers having to come out of their own pocket to buy school supplies for kids.

I could go on a whole tirade about homeschools and charter schools and private schools and how private schools have basically... Private schools are the real evil and homeschooling and charter schools are just...

less affluent people trying to create their own versions of private schools.

And that in societies where there are no private schools, those societies, their education systems tend to do better because you are forcing everyone to buy into the same public good.

And you all have to come into agreement about what an education should look like.

So yes, homeschooling is a problem.

Yes, charter schools are a problem.

they're all private schools are hiding are happily hiding behind that as the creator of said problem and the biggest uh beneficiary of said problem and so while i could on homeschools all day and people homeschooling and on charters all day i feel like you gotta i feel like you gotta start with private schools and blow those things up because it's again the billionaire class

basically allowing anyone that is not the billionaire class to kind of fight and pick each other off while not being like, hey, but wait a minute.

If you actually did the math of all the people whose money is in private schools, if you took that money in any school district and said, all right, how much money is going into all of the private schools in this district?

If those people were willing to put that amount of money just into the school district, how would that raise all boats?

Grant, do you want to pull up?

I feel like we've gone on a bunch of tangents, and I hope that this has turned into the conversation you wanted it to be.

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