Not the person you are responding to, but please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870955 and consider

Not the person you are responding to, but please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870955 and consider how cancer used to be a death sentence and now, many forms are quite survivable. EDIT: Moreover, what is the great benefit of vast swaths of uneducated peons? Do you really feel that the oligarchy needs more minions to sway? >The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines which he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. --- H.L. Mencken