#Randomperspective: my grandfather couldn't read. I now get paid to talk bullshit all day. Come a long way. God is good.

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That's an interesting thought.. My grandpa still can't read (he's 90). Doesn't stop him from talking BS all day and making fun of my job when I see him. He probably would have made a good consultant now that I think about it, if not for the whole 5th grade education / life on a farm thing.

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Haha. P1 to your grandfather you don't really have a job. You are a "suit". He can probably run circles around the rest of us.

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US.. farm in Oklahoma.

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Yea rates in the south for African Americans were embarrassingly high until very recently. Sad how little this country has done historically to help educational attainment in poor areas / minority areas.. My grandpa is Native American and experienced a similar lack of educational infrastructure.

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@A3 My family grew up on a cotton farm in the South. Literacy rates of black folk back then were pretty bad. Especially in rural areas. Cuz racism lol.

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A 90 yo who can't read seems strange to me. Was he born in the US? Just trying to get a feel for the extent of the bubble I might be living in.

My grandfather is 76 by the way.

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