100%的識(shí)字率是一件好事嗎(下)

Dharamveer Dheer, Educator (2004-present)

Dharamveer Dheer，教育家（2004年至今）

Literacy in country is a factor that has the biggest impact on its socio-economic status as a whole. Education is first step towards the upliftment of society as a whole.
We can see from track record of all countries which spend the highest percentage of their GDP on education. These countries enjoy the best standard of living across the world.
Education not only gives skills to earn money, it also gives rational, pragmatic thinking too which reduces the social evils arising out of orthodox thought processes.
So it can be safely derived that maximum literacy is not only good but best thing to happen to a nation or society.

識(shí)字率是對其整體社會(huì)經(jīng)濟(jì)地位影響最大的一個(gè)因素。教育是提升整個(gè)社會(huì)的第一步。
我們可以從所有國家的歷史記錄中看出，這些國家在教育上的支出占其GDP的比例如果最高，這些國家的人享有世界上最好的生活水平。
教育不僅提供賺錢的技能，還提供理性、務(wù)實(shí)的思維，從而減少傳統(tǒng)思維過程中產(chǎn)生的社會(huì)弊端。
因此，我們可以放心地得出結(jié)論：最大限度地提高識(shí)字率不僅是一件好事，而且是在一個(gè)國家或社會(huì)上發(fā)生的最好事情。

Fajrian Yunus, studied at Nanyang Technological University

Fajrian Yunus，就讀于南洋理工大學(xué)

Let me tell you about how it feels being an illiterate.
A few years ago, I went for a holiday to Taiwan, alone. The problem is that ... I can't speak nor read nor listen Chinese. But this stupid illiterate man went there nevertheless.
I wanted to go to a place whose name is translated as "Sun Moon Lake" in English. So I went to the bus terminal. There, I saw a bus, with 3 Chinese characters written prominently on the side window. Usually, when such thing exists, it denotes the bus route or its destination. So I grabbed my Chinese pocket dictionary, and search for the Chinese characters of "Sun", "Moon", and "Lake" while performing pattern matching between the characters I saw on the bus side window and the characters I saw on my pocket dictionary. Oh yeah, there is a slanted stroke on this corner. Huh, where is this stroke on that character? Eh, should there be 2 strokes or 3 strokes?
And yes, I took the bus and the bus went to the place I wanted to go.
I would imagine my life would be easier if I went to France or Germany which use Latin characters which I am familiar with.
I don't imagine a blue collar worker or anyone else would be benefited by having to go through the pattern matching exercise whenever he or she wants to take a bus.

讓我告訴你當(dāng)文盲的感覺。
幾年前，我獨(dú)自去臺(tái)灣度假。問題是我不會(huì)說，也不會(huì)讀，更不會(huì)聽中文。但是我這個(gè)愚蠢的文盲還是去了那里。
我想去一個(gè)翻譯過來英文名為“Sun Moon Lake”的地方。所以我去了公共汽車站。在那里，我看到一輛公共汽車，側(cè)窗上醒目地寫著3個(gè)漢字。通常，當(dāng)有這樣的東西存在時(shí)，它表示巴士路線或目的地。于是我抓起我的中文袖珍字典，搜索“日”、“月”、“潭”三個(gè)漢字，并將我在公交車側(cè)窗上看到的漢字與袖珍字典上看到的漢字進(jìn)行匹配。哦，是的，在這個(gè)角落有一個(gè)傾斜的筆劃。這個(gè)字的筆畫在哪里?呃，應(yīng)該劃兩下還是三下?
是的，我坐公共汽車去了我想去的地方。
我想如果我去法國或德國，那里使用我熟悉的拉丁字符，我的生活會(huì)更輕松。
我不認(rèn)為一個(gè)藍(lán)領(lǐng)工人或其他任何人在他或她想乘公共汽車時(shí)必須進(jìn)行匹配文字而且會(huì)從中受益。

Subashish Bose, lives in Riga, Latvia
Yes, it is a good thing.
You might be confusing literacy, or rather the criteria based on which a person can be called literate, with one having education or degree, but many years before the people doing literacy census in India told me that if one knows how to read and write his name, he is considered literate.
literacy goes a long way in boosting basic health, social and economic indicators. A strong correlation exists in high literacy with having gender equality, low infanticide, equal society, general health, and so on. A poor, but literate, women has a much higher chance to escape abusive marriage, be independent, take care of her children, and escape poverty.

是的，這是件好事。
你可能會(huì)把識(shí)字率，或者更確切地說，被識(shí)字的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)與受過教育或有學(xué)位混淆起來。但很多年前，在印度進(jìn)行掃盲普查的人告訴我，如果一個(gè)人知道如何讀寫他的名字，他就被認(rèn)為是識(shí)字的人。
識(shí)字在提高基本健康、社會(huì)和經(jīng)濟(jì)指標(biāo)方面有很大的作用。高識(shí)字率與性別平等、低殺嬰率、社會(huì)平等、一般健康狀況等密切相關(guān)。一個(gè)貧窮但受過教育的婦女有更高的機(jī)會(huì)逃脫虐待的婚姻，獨(dú)立，照顧她的孩子，并擺脫貧困。

Maura Rudd, Pretty good writer, except for credentials apparently.
Of course it would be a good thing if everyone on earth could read and write.
Your argument that literacy would make people refuse to do lower level jobs makes no sense to me.
I assume you consider being a trash collector a laborious job. In my town all the people in that job are required to be able to read and write. I know several of them, and about half have had some college or trade education beyond high school. They do not bemoan their lowly job. On the contrary, they are glad to have good steady work with benefits to support themselves and their families.
I consider reading and writing a human right. That is why I am so incensed by cultures who purposely withhold education from women or the poor in order to keep them subjugated.
There is NO benefit in keeping anyone illiterate. Except to those who want to exploit them.

當(dāng)然，如果地球上的每個(gè)人都能讀寫，那將是一件好事。
你說識(shí)字會(huì)讓人們拒絕做低水平的工作，這在我看來毫無道理
我猜你認(rèn)為收垃圾是一項(xiàng)艱苦的工作。在我的家鄉(xiāng)，所有做那份工作的人都必須具備讀寫能力。我認(rèn)識(shí)他們中的一些人，其中一半人在高中之后還接受過大學(xué)或商業(yè)教育。他們并不為自己卑微的工作而哀嘆。相反，他們很高興有一份穩(wěn)定的工作，有福利來養(yǎng)活自己和家人
我認(rèn)為閱讀和寫作是一項(xiàng)人權(quán)。這就是為什么我對那些故意不讓婦女或窮人接受教育以使她們屈服的文化感到憤怒。
讓任何一個(gè)人保持文盲是沒有好處的。除了那些想利用他們的人。

Nikola Meerburg, Artist, book junkie, bon vivant
I have a Master's degree and l speak and write 4 languages fluently.
A year ago l launched my own high end furniture making business with my life partner. We spend our days designing the work, cutting materials, joining them, sanding, painting, installing our work.
I love it. There is something incredibly satisfying about building something with your own hands that could never be replaced by sitting behind a computer all day.
At night l enjoy curling up with a good book.
I think it's too simplistic to divide people in white/blue collar job categories. We are all capable of many things if we set our minds to it.
Literacy is vital to understanding the world today and should be accessible to all.

我有碩士學(xué)位，能流利地說和寫4種語言。
一年前，我和我的生活伴侶開始了自己的高端家具制造業(yè)務(wù)。我們每天都在設(shè)計(jì)作品、切割材料、連接它們、打磨、噴漆、安裝作品。
我喜歡用自己的雙手建造一些東西，有一種令人難以置信的滿足感，整天坐在電腦后面是沒有這種感覺的。
晚上我喜歡蜷縮著看書。
我認(rèn)為將人們劃分為白領(lǐng)/藍(lán)領(lǐng)工作類別太簡單了。只要我們下定決心，我們都能做很多事情。
識(shí)字率對于理解當(dāng)今世界至關(guān)重要，應(yīng)該讓所有人都能識(shí)字。

Anonymous
With higher rates of literacy and education, individuals become exposed to new ideas and are able to process information in new ways, leading to greater innovation and execution efficiency. It also leads to greater dignity of labor, as the miasma of societal discrimination and economic discrimination clears up.
Also, greater literacy and education allows individuals to become more organized as collectives, and thereby better equipped to leverage favorable negotiation terms (check out this article India's More Perfect unx for one interesting perspective on the power of labor unxs and the devastating effects they can have on an industry). Literacy and education shouldn't be a privilege for affluent citizens alone - everyone should be able to access human knowledge and empower themselves, whether they work in a grocery store selling vegetables or in a construction site; access to education allows citizens to make informed decisions, and thereby build healthier societies.

隨著識(shí)字率和受教育率的提高，個(gè)人會(huì)接觸到新的想法，能夠以新的方式處理信息，從而帶來更大的創(chuàng)新和執(zhí)行效率。隨著社會(huì)歧視和經(jīng)濟(jì)歧視的陰霾逐漸消散，它還帶來了更大的勞動(dòng)尊嚴(yán)。
此外，更高的文化水平和教育水平使個(gè)人成為更有組織性的集體，從而更好地利用有利的談判條件（請參閱本文《印度更完美的工會(huì)》，從一個(gè)有趣的角度了解工會(huì)的力量及其對行業(yè)的破壞性影響）。識(shí)字和教育不應(yīng)該僅僅是富裕公民的特權(quán)——每個(gè)人都應(yīng)該能夠獲得人類的知識(shí)并增強(qiáng)自己的能力，無論他們在雜貨店賣蔬菜還是在建筑工地工作；接受教育可以讓公民做出明智的決定，從而建設(shè)更健康的社會(huì)。

Andreas Blixt, Senior Product Engineer at frxr

Andreas Blix，frxr高級產(chǎn)品工程師

Of course 100% literacy is a good thing. And here's why a lower literacy rate won't help:
Literacy improves communication. A person with literacy can communicate better what they know, and the employer can communicate easier what they want.
White collar jobs (such as office space jobs, managerial jobs, sales jobs) require a lot of communication. That means that people who are literate will have a higher chance on average to get the job, simply from the quality of literacy.
Assuming that a white collar job is more desirable than a laborious job, people who have more choice (literacy) will choose the desirable job. This leaves the people with less literacy with less choice. And this is why you think you see a correlation between literacy and white collar jobs.
The error in this question is the assumption that literacy defines whether you get to choose a white collar job or a laborious job. The fact of the matter is that supply and demand is in effect, and while literacy is a positive bias in getting to choose a job, removing the bias by attaining 100% literacy just puts everyone on a more level field. The same number of jobs will still be around, and people will get denied the more desirable jobs for other reasons instead.
Hypothetically, if there were more jobs than people (highly unlikely), then that would of course mean that the desirable jobs would fill up first. But in such a case, I don't think the literacy of the workers matters, because the more desirable (but understaffed) jobs would probably be willing to educate its potential workers , rather than deny them the choice. Supply and demand.

當(dāng)然，100%的識(shí)字率是一件好事。這就是為什么低識(shí)字率不會(huì)有幫助：
識(shí)字有助于溝通。有文化的人可以更好地交流他們所知道的內(nèi)容，雇主可以更容易與他們地交流想法。。
白領(lǐng)工作（如辦公室工作、管理工作、銷售工作）需要大量的溝通。這意味著識(shí)字的人有更高的機(jī)會(huì)找到工作，這僅僅是因?yàn)樽R(shí)字的質(zhì)量。
假設(shè)白領(lǐng)工作比辛苦的工作更令人向往，（識(shí)字）的人有更多選擇時(shí)會(huì)選擇理想的工作。這使得識(shí)字率較低的人選擇機(jī)會(huì)較少。這就是為什么你認(rèn)為讀寫能力和白領(lǐng)工作之間存在關(guān)聯(lián)。
這個(gè)問題的錯(cuò)誤在于，假設(shè)讀寫能力決定了你可以選擇白領(lǐng)工作還是艱苦的工作。事實(shí)上，供求關(guān)系是有效的，雖然識(shí)字率是選擇工作時(shí)的一種積極偏見，但通過達(dá)到100%的識(shí)字率來消除這種偏見只會(huì)讓每個(gè)人都進(jìn)入一個(gè)更為平等的領(lǐng)域。同樣數(shù)量的工作仍將存在，人們將因?yàn)槠渌蚨鵁o法得到更理想的工作。
假設(shè)，如果工作崗位比人多(非常不可能)，那么這當(dāng)然意味著理想的工作崗位會(huì)減少，但在這種情況下，我認(rèn)為工人的文化素養(yǎng)并不重要，因?yàn)楦硐?但人手不足)的工作可能會(huì)愿意教育其具備潛在能力的工人，而不是剝奪他們的選擇機(jī)會(huì)。這一切都是供需關(guān)系。

Jaim Harlow, Father, Husband, systems engineer, researcher, historian, Silicon Valley Technology Executive, Sephardic Jew.
Bad manager says: "I don't see why we teach people to work here - what if they leave after a while?"
Good manager says: "What if we don't train them and they stay forever?"

壞經(jīng)理說：“我不明白在這里工作，我們?yōu)槭裁匆虅e人—如果他們過一段時(shí)間離開怎么辦？”
好的管理者說：“如果我們不訓(xùn)練他們，他們會(huì)永遠(yuǎn)留在這里，那怎么辦？”

Scott Young, Commissioning Specialist Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
In a developed nation, the number of labour jobs that do not require education is shockingly low. Rule out any construction job in Canada because of the safety requirements. First day on any project, I have to sit through a safety seminar and then read and complete a test. Every person on the job has to do this from general labourers to site supervisors to the designers of the building.
Landscaping? You probably need a drivers license and that takes an ability to read.
I think that you could be a trapper in the north without being able to read. There are probably 30,000 (less than 1/100 of 1% of the population) of them in the entire country (including native and Inuit hunters) and most if not all of them can read although probably do not have to on the job.
Ditch digger? The job my mom threatened me with if I did not do my homework? They are called heavy equipment operators now, they have to read to get qualified (and to read the huge cheques they get every week - wrong guess, Mom!).
100% literacy is not only a good thing, it is absolutely mandatory for our economy.

在一個(gè)發(fā)達(dá)國家，不需要教育背景的勞動(dòng)崗位數(shù)量低得驚人。在加拿大，因?yàn)榘踩?，任何建筑工作中，開啟任何項(xiàng)目的第一天，我必須坐下來通過一個(gè)安全研討會(huì)，然后閱讀和完成一個(gè)測試。每個(gè)工作人員都必須這樣做，從普通工人到現(xiàn)場監(jiān)督，再到建筑的設(shè)計(jì)師。
景觀美化類工作？你可能需要駕駛執(zhí)照，這需要閱讀能力。
我想你可能是北方的一個(gè)捕獵者—不識(shí)字。全國大約有30000人（不到1%人口的）（包括土著和因紐特人—獵人），他們中的大多數(shù)人（如果不是所有人的話）都能閱讀，盡管他們可能不需要在工作中懂閱讀。
挖溝機(jī)工作？如果我不做作業(yè)，我媽媽威脅我將從事的工作類型？他們現(xiàn)在被稱為重型設(shè)備操作員，他們必須閱讀才能獲得資格（還要閱讀每周收到的巨額支票—媽媽，你猜錯(cuò)了?。?。
100%的識(shí)字率不僅是一件好事，而且對我們的經(jīng)濟(jì)來說是絕對必要的。

Srikanth Surapaneni, Business Enabler, Strategic Alliances, Co-Founder at The Reqrootr (2018-present)

Srikanth Surapaneni，商業(yè)推動(dòng)者、戰(zhàn)略聯(lián)盟、Reqrootr聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人（2018年至今）

I don't really think that matters in the coming years.
Skill rate would replace the term literacy rate. In fact, I would love to see soon that the skill rate replaces literacy rate. Many states who claim better literacy rates are also facing the problem of unemployment due to lack of skilled professionals. So, going forward skill improvement, skill upgradation will be the key.

我真的認(rèn)為這在未來幾年并不重要。
技能率將取代“識(shí)字率。事實(shí)上，我希望很快看到技能率取代識(shí)字率。許多聲稱識(shí)字率較高的州也因缺乏熟練專業(yè)人員而導(dǎo)致出現(xiàn)失業(yè)問題。因此，在技能提升方面，技能升級將是關(guān)鍵。

Keith Kiekebusch, works at Self Employed Carpenter, Poker Dealer, Firefighter/iemt
I have worked as a carpenter/cabinetmaker most of my life which makes me a blue collar worker. I can tell you that the abilities of reading writing math and geometry are very necessary for me to perform my work. I have worked with carpenters that were illiterate and sadly they could not be left alone to work by themselves. An illiterate/uneducated workforce is inefficient and expensive.
That said I tend to agree with Jimmy Wales in his opinion that this question is class driven. If you are part of the upper class wherever you live you may be wishing to preserve your status by keeping the masses ignorant .
I have to admit that this question makes me angry!

我一生的大部分時(shí)間都在做木匠、細(xì)木工，這使我成為一名藍(lán)領(lǐng)工人。我可以告訴你，閱讀、寫作、數(shù)學(xué)和幾何的能力對我完成工作是非常必要的。我曾與不識(shí)字的木匠一起工作，不幸的是，他們不能獨(dú)自工作。文盲、未受教育的勞動(dòng)力效率低下，成本高昂。
也就是說，我傾向于同意吉米·威爾斯的觀點(diǎn)，即這個(gè)問題是由階級驅(qū)動(dòng)的。如果你是上層階級的一部分，無論你住在哪里，你可能希望通過讓大眾保持無知來維持你的地位。
我不得不承認(rèn)這個(gè)問題讓我很生氣！

Bhaskar Paladugu, A farmer, a labor and a White collar job holder.

巴斯卡·帕拉杜奧，一名農(nóng)民，一名勞工，一名白領(lǐng)。

The question itself as mentioned by Jimmy Wales and Balaji Viswanathan seems to have some bias and limited understanding. Though Jimmy Wales had answered in global perspective, I will try to answer with ground realities.
I have been a farmer, a labor and now a white collar job holder. I came from a village, grew up both in village and a small town and now live in a big metropolitan in USA and I think I am qualified give more first-hand answer.
Connection between literacy and labor needs to observed based on the labor in question.
Heavy engineering - Literacy is a must to perform certain operations efficiently.
My brother is high-school educated labor-contractor in energy industry. He has both literate and illiterate people in his crew. He will assign certain work to only literate person. Illiterate person might still make same amount, be more responsible and do an efficient job, but being illiterate limits him. Also just being able to read and write doesn't take you to places, for that you need personal attributes. For some critical consulting advise my brother charges $1500/day (100000 rupees!!), just because of knowledge he acquired even being a high-school educated person. The people who consult are white-collar master degree holders. Being literate opened that door, he is still a labor but more efficient than white-collar person.

Jimmy Wales和Balaji Viswanathan提到的問題本身似乎有一些偏見和理解起來有局限限。雖然Jimmy Wales已經(jīng)從全球的角度回答了這個(gè)問題，但我將嘗試用更現(xiàn)實(shí)的方式來回答。
我曾經(jīng)是一名農(nóng)民，一名勞工，現(xiàn)在是一名白領(lǐng)。我來自一個(gè)村莊，在一個(gè)村莊和一個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)長大，現(xiàn)在住在美國的大都市，我想我有資格給出更多的第一手答案。
識(shí)字率和勞動(dòng)之間的聯(lián)系需要根據(jù)所討論的勞動(dòng)類型來觀察。
重型機(jī)械工程—要想高效地執(zhí)行某些操作，必須具備一定的讀寫能力
我哥哥是能源行業(yè)受過高中教育的勞務(wù)承包商。他的手下既有識(shí)字的人，也有不識(shí)字的人。他只把某些工作分配給有文化的人。不識(shí)字的人可能仍然掙同樣的錢，更負(fù)責(zé)任，工作效率更高，但文盲限制了他。此外，僅僅能夠讀和寫并不能讓你達(dá)到目的，為此你需要具備個(gè)人屬性。對于一些重要的咨詢建議，我哥哥每天收費(fèi)1500美元（100000盧比！），即使僅受過高中教育，但他學(xué)到了知識(shí)。咨詢的人都是擁有碩士學(xué)位的白領(lǐng)。識(shí)字的給了他機(jī)會(huì)，他仍然是一名勞工，但比白領(lǐng)更有效率。

Agriculture - Literacy may not be needed, but being literate doesn't mean one stops being farmer. Lot of people including me did farming even while pursuing technical education and lot of people I know from my fathers generation (1950s) who are literate are farmers their whole life.
So, literacy is not going to hinder any labor position, but is only going to help. It is the personal vales and attitude that decides. If one feels entitled and superior to others by being literate then he is not helpful to society at large.
Literacy requirements being diluted in India : Literacy is just about ability to read and write, nothing further. The rest of the abilities are personal. In US super market I have observed persons at checking counters not able calculate how much change to give back until the system prompts, which I didn't observed even with illiterate person in India - does it mean literacy standards are poor in US.
There is one thing though that India should avoid of blindly following others - we don't want human robots who just understand and execute instructions; we need intelligent humans.

農(nóng)業(yè)工作可能不需要識(shí)字，但識(shí)字后并不意味著一個(gè)人不再是農(nóng)民。包括我在內(nèi)的許多人甚至在接受技術(shù)教育的同時(shí)也從事農(nóng)業(yè)，我認(rèn)識(shí)的我父親那一代（1950年代）許多有文化的人一生都是農(nóng)民。
所以，讀寫能力不會(huì)妨礙從事任何勞動(dòng)崗位，只會(huì)有所幫助。這是個(gè)人價(jià)值和態(tài)度決定的。如果一個(gè)人因?yàn)樽R(shí)字而感到自己有資格和優(yōu)于他人，那么他對整個(gè)社會(huì)沒有幫助。
在印度，讀寫能力的要求正在被淡化：讀寫能力僅僅是閱讀和寫作的能力，而不是其他。其余的能力都是個(gè)人的。在美國的超市里，我觀察到在檢查柜臺(tái)的人在系統(tǒng)提示之前無法計(jì)算要返還多少錢，而在印度的文盲中甚至都可以做到—這是否意味著美國的識(shí)字水平很低。
不過，有一件事印度應(yīng)該避免盲目追隨其他國家—我們不想要只會(huì)理解和執(zhí)行指令的人類機(jī)器人；我們需要聰明的人。
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Juan Jose Lardizabal, Honduran Citizen

胡安·何塞·拉迪扎巴爾，洪都拉斯公民

This would not affect me in any way, shape or form. But of course that many people and companies would not like this because this would mean that they could no longer cheat people into doing or to buying stuff they do not like, need or want. In fact I think this could possibly benefit me since I live in Honduras. Here in Honduras the literacy rate is 88.5%, (one point under the world average). Sometimes it is difficult for me to communicate with other people in Honduras via physical text since many people don’t know how to read.

這不會(huì)對我產(chǎn)生任何影響。但當(dāng)然，許多人和公司不喜歡這樣，因?yàn)檫@意味著他們不能再欺騙人們?nèi)プ龌蛸徺I他們不喜歡、不需要或不想要的東西。事實(shí)上，我認(rèn)為這可能會(huì)使我受益，因?yàn)槲易≡诤槎祭埂：槎祭沟淖R(shí)字率為88.5%（比世界平均水平低一個(gè)百分點(diǎn)）。有時(shí)我很難實(shí)體文本與他人交流，因?yàn)樵S多人不知道如何閱讀。

Eric Kirubasuthan, studied at University College London

埃里克·基魯巴蘇坦，就讀于倫敦大學(xué)學(xué)院

Attempts to conflate literacy and education, and further correlate education with white-collar jobs, I must say this. It is unethical to even consider restricting literacy with the view to creating a class that fulfills labour which oneself finds repugnant.
Assuming that non-literate persons are restricted to "laborious" jobs and are consequently paid nominally or remain unpaid, you must be prepared to accept that the class will drag down the society's purchasing power. Such an economy will implode, because it artificially seeks to cut demand.
Your society would be inefficient and largely unproductive, given that a majority or a substantial minority would need to be rendered forcibly illiterate (which wastes resources), demand little of value and produce little of value.
Your economy would be a the mercy of foreign markets, because domestic demand would be more or less non-existent. Your people cannot afford what they produce; you may very well have to peddle their produce to foreigners for a pittance.

我必須說，他們試圖將讀寫能力和教育混為一談，并進(jìn)一步將教育與白領(lǐng)工作聯(lián)系起來。為了創(chuàng)造一個(gè)讓自己感到厭惡的勞動(dòng)得以實(shí)現(xiàn)的階級，甚至考慮限制掃盲都是不道德的.
假設(shè)不識(shí)字的人被限制在“費(fèi)力”的工作中，因此名義上獲得報(bào)酬或仍然沒有報(bào)酬，你必須準(zhǔn)備好接受這個(gè)階級會(huì)拖累社會(huì)的購買力。這樣一個(gè)經(jīng)濟(jì)體將崩潰，因?yàn)樗藶榈貙で笙鳒p需求。
你的社會(huì)將是低效的，而且基本上是沒有生產(chǎn)力的，因?yàn)榇蠖鄶?shù)人或相當(dāng)多的少數(shù)人需要被強(qiáng)制變成文盲（這會(huì)浪費(fèi)資源），需求少，產(chǎn)出少
你的經(jīng)濟(jì)將受制于外國市場，因?yàn)閲鴥?nèi)需求或多或少將不復(fù)存在你的人民負(fù)擔(dān)不起他們生產(chǎn)的東西;你很可能不得不向外國人兜售他們生產(chǎn)的產(chǎn)品以賺取微薄的收入

Edgar Lin, Person
In a Democracy, yes. Literacy is very important for proper voting, and it increases productivity and quality of life, for obvious reasons. It allows more social mobility, because reading is a very important skill for getting more education.
In a Meritocratic Oligarchy, yes. It's nice to have a good pool of people to recruit into the party, and if people can't understand all the great things you're doing, they might rebel.
In an autocracy, no. It would be better to have as little educated people as possible, because educated people are more likely to rebel. Writing is a great way for rebels to communicate with each other. Better keep them stupid.

在民主國家，是的。識(shí)字對于正確的投票非常重要，它提高了生產(chǎn)力和生活質(zhì)量，原因顯而易見。它允許更多的社會(huì)流動(dòng)性，因?yàn)殚喿x是獲得更多教育的一項(xiàng)非常重要的技能。
在精英寡頭政治中，是的，有一個(gè)人才庫來入黨是好事，如果人們不能理解你所做的所有偉大的事情，他們可能會(huì)造反。
在專制政體中，沒有好處。最好是教育程度越低越好，因?yàn)榻逃潭仍礁叩娜嗽饺菀自旆?。寫作是叛軍互相交流的好方法。最好讓他們保持愚蠢?/b>