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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (41590)6/22/1999 11:49:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
There will obviously be calculations of cost and benefit. The terms of these calculations change as societies grow more civilized. Not long ago ruling classes in most countries made conscious efforts to deny education to the masses, knowing that it would make them harder to dominate. Now it is generally recognized that attempts to make the masses productive and give them the ability to raise their standards of living ultimately generate more wealth for all.

Could one say that a civilized society calculates these costs and benefits as cost and benefit to the society, rather than to the individual members of the ruling class?
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