"But I think that (and I mean this without irony) is the literal stated goal of the capital-holding class: to keep their workforce just barely productive enough to function for twenty-to-forty years, but weakened and preoccupied enough to be in too precarious a position to ever make trouble…although this is stated in more “benevolent” terms, from the 19th century claim that educating the congenitally incapable (i.e. the workforce) and giving us free time could cause insanity, to the present ideas that book-larnin’ and free time distracts women from motherhood, puts ideas in Black people’s heads, turns children trans, turns college kids communist, and just generally tricks people, and the perpetual idea that healthcare is wasted on people so dissolute and prone to vice as we are; the idea always is that we naturally yearn to nobly labor for minimum wage and otherwise numb ourselves with beer and the tee-vee and then die young but happy in our simplicity … but then health and education and free time lead us simpletons to get into trouble instead — in way over our heads, trying to take on the tasks (and wealth) our tireless (and wealthy) rulers so selflessly take on. So by keeping us always slightly ill and preoccupied and saddled with debt and overworked and at one another’s throats and mentally checked-out, our wealthy benefactors are doing us a favor, see? I mean, that’s how it’s framed in those circles. But the end result is the same: we’re kept rested and fed and schooled just enough to keep us working, but ideally never so peppy that we might make trouble".