>Why do we accept this? Because not enough people are fed up with it, or at least not fed up with it directly, in order to organise and change the system; ther

>Why do we accept this? Because not enough people are fed up with it, or at least not fed up with it directly, in order to organise and change the system; there are many easier things to blace one's blame on, things which seem easier to change but are just as temporary and broken - like small changes in the tax level or as another commenter said school fees. Reducing school fees is merely tangential to your point, but people are convinced it's the right thing to do - because other solutions seem so helplessly out of reach that they are invisible to many such that they are not identified as problems at all. We accept democracy in our politics, but the economy has just as much if not more influence over our lives, yet it is free from control. Adam Smith called the free market as "free" for this exact reason.