cyrnel

There's certainly an element of ditch digging involved. If everybody got it, it would be harder to manage.

And where does the education end? Society is continually exposed to advisors encouraging debt and depletion, not wealth building. It starts before K and goes long after higher ed.

To me the question of "who" is as much "which face of who?" Is it face-to-face over coffee, in a book, at a seminar, or maybe a product advertisement? Those who have attained substantial wealth generally hold positions that allow multiple forms of interaction, though the message varies by audience. It's rare I have coffee with these people.

I'm trying to think of anyone I trust that tfp'ers would know. Empty well. I trust greenspan to be a financial geek (in a good way). He's very concerned with big-picture finances, pressured many times by politics. I expect politicians to be very concerned with personal (and allies') financial health, pressured many times by big-picture finances. If I'm reading or watching something, consuming any form of media, I assume the material is massaged by motives and put on my tinfoil hat.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195