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Goes everywhere actually. Today it should be common knowledge that education is the foundation of a strong and prosperous society.

Yet we keeper our focus elsewhere.

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To make it sound maybe a bit more enticing to the money holders, investing in education is literally investing in the future.

The "money holders" already have access to great schools turning out great students. They literally don't see the problem.

Yeah, they're covered for their offspring. But we have to make them see that investing in everyone's future is a net gain.

Then we obviously just have the small problem that you can only be obscenely wealthy if you have a lot more wealth than the average person. Elevate a large number of people, and the über-wealthy people's relative wealth go down.

Regrettably, they would apparently rather have a violent uprising and be forced to help other people, than do it voluntarily.

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