We have a saying: "Learn a craft to survive and letters to not be stolen from." You don't want a democratic society lacking or with subpar education. Do you p

We have a saying: "Learn a craft to survive and letters to not be stolen from." You don't want a democratic society lacking or with subpar education. Do you prefer your neighbor voting for the future of the economy, your kids, your long term state goals to be well educated or lacking education. And a lot of populism is based on tricking your constituents with statistics. But even then: we need skilled workers. Looking 10-20 years ahead, what is the ratio of unskilled/skilled jobs that we need? I would argue the ratio is dropping. And if it isn't, one can always do an unskilled job with a graduate degree. Not so much the other way around. At least if you want to compete globally. I see your point. But I think doing some back of the envelope in my head it doesn't work in the long run and is bad for the democracy. The US does have a pricing social issue, but that is not true for the UK from my understanding (outsider, from other part of Europe). My 2c anyways. Edit: fixed typos