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Why do some people defend the billionaires and capitalism? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Which is why the conservative mandate is to defund education and keep people as ignorant as possible.

I mean, to keep the common man as ignorant as possible -- the children of the elites will always go to prohibitively expensive Montessori schools, which will better prepare them for critical thinking and bullshit detection so that they may better rule over and parasitize off the common man.