So, like for example, a government proposes a marginal tax increase on income over $200,000 annually.

The policy is straightforward. If you earn 210,000 euros, you pay the higher rate only on the final

10,000 euros. But watch what happens in public discourse. People earning 40,000 euros annually become convinced that they will be taxed more. They interpret the proposal through vibes, through fear narratives, through social media framings like they want to take your money and sheet or disus banishings like this. Nobody does the math. Nobody reads

the actual policy text. Nobody considers the material impact on them. They just feel threatened.

That feeling becomes their entire understanding. This happens with health care, with housing, with labor law, with everything. The root

cause isn't, as we, I don't know how many times we need to say it with some idiotic idea of

genetic stupidity. It's that people genuinely lack the cognitive tools to understand

institutional mechanisms.

Okay.

They've never been taught.

Okay.

They never stood and washed their hands before entering the classroom and before going

to eat.

They never been taught how tax records work, how healthcare funding operates, how zoning

law functions.

Because why would capitalists ever fucking teach us any of this so they default to the simplest available interpretation someone is

trying to hurt me yeah this makes them incredibly easy to manipulate tell them i don't know there's

another cliche i'm sorry immigrants are the problem and they're going to believe it. Tell them unions will

destroy jobs. They're going to believe them. Tell them regulation kills freedom. They're

going to believe it. Not because they are naturally gullible or something, but because they don't

have the educational foundation or the cultural literacy to evaluate these claims critically.

And they don't have that educational foundation, not just education, that lived experience.

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