Like, how specifically has our society gotten better since High School became universal and college became the norm?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870955
and consider how cancer used to be a death sentence and now, many forms are quite survivable.
EDIT: Moreover, what is the great benefit of vast swaths of uneducated peons? Do you really feel that the oligarchy needs more minions to sway?
>The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines which he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. --- H.L. Mencken
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870955
and consider how cancer used to be a death sentence and now, many forms are quite survivable.
EDIT: Moreover, what is the great benefit of vast swaths of uneducated peons? Do you really feel that the oligarchy needs more minions to sway?
>The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines which he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. --- H.L. Mencken