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Originally Posted by elphenor
I don't know if it's what you're trying to say Batlord, but they stay "lazy and stupid" because the system demands it
in capitalism it's assumed you will have a large segment of the population that's basically hopeless grunt workers, it can't work any differently without major adjustments to the framework of the economy
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and without the encouragement by society to be anything more they will happily not challenge themselves by reading books or whatever to educate themselves on any given subject (don't act like your fellow wage slaves actually want to read) that might expand their minds and increase their "value" to society. A large percentage or poor people distrust intellectualism not simply because they don't believe that it will benefit them but because it is often considered alien to their culture and even threatening (e.g. science being seen as an enemy to religion), not to mention the intimidating notion of actually learning itself.
If they did educate themselves on things like politics, science, economics, etc they might just sit up straight and wonder what the **** they're even doing living in this drudgery, but that would be effort they often don't even believe wouldn't be a waste given their current circumstances and yes given the hurdles they actually know about that keep them where they are, to say nothing of the hurdles they're not even aware of.