^^ Very much this... (Most of) The whole world is stupid enough to fall for it
You want fewer riots? Uprisings? Fewer questioning authority? Put people in debt.

They can't walk out on a boss they don't like, they might lose their overpriced house. They can't go protesting, they can't take time off work. They can't even write sternly worded letters to their MP, that takes time and they're too tired.

They can't resist big business taking what they want from the land, because it is going to make everyone rich enough to pay their debts, isn't it? Bye bye local natural resources...

Encourage everything to get just expensive enough that people have to borrow just to live.

Debt is what gives money its value, and is what keeps the world enslaved. The more of the world I understand, the more I see this to be true.

Want to be free? Don't play their game - don't owe anyone money.

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Luckily, just recently we've seen that this ploy doesn't work forever - keep people on the breadline just long enough, then take away their bread, and they WILL rise up. I find this very encouraging about the country.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 15:50, 2 replies)

A few students complaining about having to pay back tuition fees
is hardly the storming of the Winter Palace.
Just saying, like.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:21, closed)

Oh, there's others you don't hear about
Plus the strikes we've got coming.

I'm hoping this is the wind of change, though I'm ready for it to be a waft of stale fart.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 16:24, closed)

well said

(Dagwood, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 17:07, closed)