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40 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 19 May \ parent \ on: Interest Rate Caps Won’t Solve America’s Debt Problem. Here’s What Will econ
Almost everyone’s education is downstream of central planning, so there’s not much incentive in the system to communicate this message.
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Why would they want to understand something that would dis-empower themselves? It is only the misundestanding economics that allows them to do what they are doing. Of course, as stated above, the whole education system is captured, too.
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Yes, I guess you are right. Public schooling was designed from the start to degrade the thinking powers of the populace. The people before public education and Horace Mann were very literate in several languages, like Greek and Latin and could critically think circles around us.
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Glad to find a stacker aware of Mann.
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He came from an era that was enthralled with progressive/lefty/collectivist/Marxist/socialist/communist/murderers and their ways. The Bismarckian theory of education and citizenry would not make it amongst critical thinkers but those progressive/lefty/collectivist/Marxist/socialist/communist/murderers love it to supplant the excellent education the American children were getting from their parents and the market. Mann was a total tool!