It's possible to devote too much time and energy to education, i.e. diminishing returns. Academia is, in essence, a multi-level marketing scheme that produces

It's possible to devote too much time and energy to education, i.e. diminishing returns. Academia is, in essence, a multi-level marketing scheme that produces more of itself, and will (if given unlimited resources from other areas of society) expand until it takes all resources simply replicating more of itself. Many poor countries have enormously bloated education sectors.