Educated Class, Working Class, and the Future of American Society Considered

Not long ago, an acquaintance asked me a question that I really didn't have the answer for, but it was an intriguing question certainly worth a dialogue. What he asked was this; "Are we moving toward a working class or an educated class?" So, let me give you my thoughts on this, again off the top of my head. Here is what I told my acquaintance;

It's hard to tell, it seems the pendulum is always in play. But what we consider an "educated class" looks to me to be more like a brain-washed class sometimes. A lot of the so-called educated class are derelicts (at least per Calvin Coolidge, I guarantee you most of them can't handle my world of entrepreneurship, so they teach?).

What I don't understand is how come an educated class thinks it doesn't have to work - that somehow it is now smarter (because academia gave them a piece of paper upon completion of brainwashing and they are now entitled to exist on the backs of the working class, whether it is here or China, Vietnam, Singapore, etc.). Just because one is highly educated should not allow them to rest on their laurels and command others to work while they watch.

It is my belief that; "Everyone should provide productivity, if we all wish to enjoy abundance." Even the educated folks, and providing intelligent decision making is important too, but the decisions being made today by academia or those who believe they are educated is anything but "progressive" - as the educated class would have us believe, in fact the social tendencies our nation is leading towards is completely "regressive" in all regards.

Thus, the educational system is fouling the water and polluting the minds of their group and claiming knowledge above the average man who unfortunately trusts their abilities often without question. And when you get 100s of people (educated) sitting in a room agreeing with each other, you have 99 people being paid that are not needed, they are not thinking. And besides we can program an AI computer to make better decisions than humans anyway. They really aren't that bright, even the so-called educated ones.

Meanwhile, this is an interesting topic, and I invite any academic who wishes to justify their status to email me for an expansion on this topic. And to my acquaintance who later apologized for asking this question, well; "there is nothing wrong with questions! Ask lots, the questions are most important."
Interesting indeed. Please consider all this.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes it's hard work to write 21,300 articles; http://www.bloggingcontent.net/