> Would it have been any more precise if I'd said "political leaders
> and policy intellectuals and others with power over public finances"?
Yes, it would have been more precise, and the advantage of that is that it would have been obviously wrong -- or let's say, greatly oversimplified. Some of these people have come around to thinking the proles should have nothing; others still think they need lots of indoctrination.
> It's always amusing when highly educated people demean the importance
> of formal education for others.
Education is one thing; the institutions that currently purport to provide it, quite another.
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