This sounds border-line conspiracy-theory-ish, but think about this the next time you hear wealthy or powerful people talking about how to improve education. Th

This sounds border-line conspiracy-theory-ish, but think about this the next time you hear wealthy or powerful people talking about how to improve education. They might not talk about how education opens your mind, expands your horizons, liberates you from poverty, etc. (some do, and those people are awesome). They may instead talk about educating people to prepare them for specific jobs. That sounds great as a direct impact of education, but that's a hint that they're really looking for publicly-subsidized training of their future employees so they can get away with not providing the training or necessary financial incentives themselves.