> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Rather than writing everyone off a Just That Dumb(

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Rather than writing everyone off a Just That Dumb(TM), perhaps the really neat trick has been to convince a sufficient proportion of people that their salary depends somehow on carefully not understanding "living wages" and "rising wealth inequality is a problem" and "the planetary ecosystem is in bad shape". Disclaimer: for my own part I certainly have a substantial amount of decidedly uncomfortable cognitive dissonance between "I want a nice comfy life" and "I'm literally part of this problem, aren't I?". From the outside I probably seem like just another zombie to some people. Ironically, although that quote is by Upton Sinclair, it is not from The Jungle, which concerns the meat packing industry.