Reply #16: About the education points...

[DaveJ]

I don't think people's lack of education is all that relevant in this case. Thank goodness for the uneducated, because if they did not exist, the educated would have to clean toilets. Being educated, whether it is academically or not, is relative.

They would love to eat finer food if they could afford it, but they can't, so they don't even consider it. I don't even think most upper middle class folks would even consider buying natural food that is 3+ times more expensive when they have kids and teenagers. My wife and I just started buying it now that the kids moved out and we are making a little more money.

My point is that this is more of an example of how the controlling forces could not care less about our well-being. This is another example of how we have it worse than others had it 20 or 30 years ago. We are supposed to think we have it good because of the endless variety of artificial food, and other useless objects like plastic gizmos and ridiculous fashions. It is like a thin coat of paint over what would otherwise be recognized as a rotten economic infrastructure.