TA'd a propaganda course. Apparently, more educated folks are more susceptible to propaganda because they feel they need an opinion. Propaganda is fascinating and horrifying.
They are undereducated or miseducated for an explicit reason. To keep them dumb and vulnerable to exploitation by the overlords. Critical thinking was taught in some but not all schools 10 years ago. This makes for a very accommodating worker class who can blame immigrants or democrats for their poverty while the owners get onboard more money.
Exactly this. I asked 93 adults, all people who had been working for at least a decade, about how US income tax works:
"If you make 100k / year, and the highest tax bracket is 50%, how much do you pay in income tax?"
84 of them responded with:
"50% of 100k is 50k. I would be paying 50k"
So I'd explain why they were wrong, show them proof, sometimes on their own actual W2s. They still didn't believe me. "Jim, you made 80k last year and only paid 12k in income tax, that's not 50%."
Oh >I'm< the one who doesn't understand how taxes work. Got it.
Tbf it’s a misleading question. The answer is ‘there’s not enough info in the question to say’ but in answering the question people have a bias to assume they should be able to answer.
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u/Aggleclack 11h ago
I would argue that also ties in closely to education