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> due to the financial rewards resulting from the former behavior. I agree, but not with your cause and effect. Educated/wealthy people benefit and have benef
by ronaldx 13y ago
> due to the financial rewards resulting from the former behavior.
I agree, but not with your cause and effect.
Educated/wealthy people benefit and have benefited (hugely) from the status quo. Therefore they have a positive interest in preserving the status quo.
It is not surprising that people without access to education and wealth have less trust and support for the establishment - this is a purely rational response.
- pessimizer 13y agoMy cause and effect was definitely editorial, but I think the process of becoming educated is a process of assimilating into the status quo, and thereby the middle class. As such, I think it's largely selecting people who do what they're told. Educated people are not necessarily benefiting at all from the status quo before they become educated. They may have worked their way through all kinds of adversity to achieve that education. That they now benefit from the status quo (that they invested in) would be why those people would want to preserve it, not because they always benefited from it. I agree with you that it's totally rational.
- ronaldx 13y ago> Educated people are not necessarily benefiting at all from the status quo before they become educated. We're disagreeing here only because I believe that social status/education is largely a function of your parents' status, and their influence, rather than of your grit. You benefit from the status quo if your parents benefit from the status quo.