They actually enjoy keeping people at that level of ignorance and poverty
I think, taking this to a more general level, that's a requisite of free-market capitalism (and for that matter of the totalitarian forms of communism): it doesn't work unless the vast majority of those involved are too dumb and/or ignorant to realize they're being shafted. This is of course incompatible with democracy, which functions best with well educated and well informed populations.
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Date: 2010-01-15 10:50 pm (UTC)They actually enjoy keeping people at that level of ignorance and poverty
I think, taking this to a more general level, that's a requisite of free-market capitalism (and for that matter of the totalitarian forms of communism): it doesn't work unless the vast majority of those involved are too dumb and/or ignorant to realize they're being shafted. This is of course incompatible with democracy, which functions best with well educated and well informed populations.