When the government deliberately keeps people uneducated, then I agree with you -- it's unethical to force people into that rut and then take advantage of them

When the government deliberately keeps people uneducated, then I agree with you -- it's unethical to force people into that rut and then take advantage of them for being there. But the government in the US is trying to get everyone educated -- not always effectively, though. I know some schools suck, I went to a public school in the middle of a ghetto. Many of the students came from impoverished families, and would routinely bite the hand that feeds them when it came to education -- by disrupting class, (very proudly) not doing their homework, and whatnot. Watching that kind of behavior day-after-day took away any sympathy I might have for the consequences of their actions.