Education was never designed for the poor. It was built by the aristocracy to serve their interests. The system evolved to maintain profit and power. There’s a tiered structure — top universities for the elite, where leadership and strategy are taught through tradition and gamesmanship. The rest attend institutions with less prestige, often burdened by debt and limited access. Ghostwriting, legacy admissions, and social networks skew the playing field further.
Most people don’t get guarantees or shortcuts. Those who do often contribute to the mess we see in government and business. For the rest of us, success is mostly luck — shaped by upbringing, environment, and access to money. Education leads to debt. Loans are paid back to the very system that created them.
Even the aristocracy can fall. But the rule remains: it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Directed opportunities come with a price. Favors are rarely free. Life is a battlefield — the world market. The swords are virtual now, but the outcomes are real. The battle is subtle. The fight is for control, for influence, for survival.
Knowledge is power, so ignorance is profitable. Meaningless courses are sold to the unenlightened. Strategy has been replaced by tick-box exercises. The education system deteriorates, led by bureaucrats and puppet masters. Some of them had ghostwriters. Some lack basic competence. But karma may catch up. Eyes are opening — slowly.
This cycle — of manipulation, elitism, and systemic decay — may lead to collapse. Civilisations have fallen before. The threat of war looms. Orders are given from behind desks. But we must ask: what do these leaders know? What have they lived? What values do they hold?
Because today, our qualifications — our pieces of paper — feel like nothing more than tomorrow’s chip paper, floating in the wind.
