I can't remember where I heard this, but it was a story about rich people India. The type of people who take helicopters to work in order to avoid the horrid streets, where poor people defecate because they don't have much of a choice. They are just that poor.
Similar things are a foot, or underfoot, in San Francisco. They can't keep the streets clean, yet the price of real estate edges ever higher, and the rich companies have various schemes for getting their employees to work safely.
I don't know the state of the streets and sewage in Mexico or much of Latin America, but I know there's a small upper class, and then everybody else. I was getting close to being able to read the language, but I was presented with a problem, not much in the way of great content out there in Spanish. Which suggests most people don't read, and the people rich enough to do either learn English or get translations of popular English stuff.
Anyway, this is either the plan or a very acceptable side effect of the plan.
It seems to me those who cry about inequality protest too much. If you've got some sort of merit, and could rise, if given a real chance to, well screw you. The rich don't want the competition. Seems kind of dumb in this age of genetics, but the elites seem hell bent on producing dull children. And the only way for those children to be in charge is to dumb down everyone else. Maddening.
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