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On a side note, there are about 20 people that i work with who never even finished high school. Two guys can't even read, and I can't even begin to count how many guys I work with don't even have a checkings or savings account. I'm not making that shit up. You couldn't possibly believe how dumb the son of a bitches are.
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I had a feeling that education was a big part of this (thus my citation of Gaventa). Do you think that they intentionally hire people that have less education than others to keep the power structure intact?
I have my theories about how those in charge in government have attempted to defund education to create a larger class of people who don't participate politically and create a great pool of cheap labor for the corporations. It seems evident to me that some of those examples you gave could have been mitigated with education (i.e. personal finance courses). Do any of you think there is a connection here? Additionally, the drug dependency/abuse scenario seems to depict a situation where many people don't like their lives and wish to escape it. It sounds as though there are just a lot of lost people out there; I would imagine that any education efforts made now to remedy this would be a long time in coming to show any significant changes.