I think this is a claim about emergent effects of the interaction between education and the wider economic system rather than the intent of a particular group of people. In practice I don't think it makes much difference if a system is accidentally having a particular effect or having the same effect with some particular group of people's intent. It's similar to how I don't think it's too misleading to talk about evolution creating species, there is an underlying level it helps to keep in mind, but talking without the abstraction would make things too verbose
>In practice I don't think it makes much difference if a system is accidentally having a particular effect or having the same effect with some particular group of people's intent.
Of course intent matters which is why we make distinctions between things like Manslaughter and Murder, and OP was explicitly stating that this system was very much intentionally built to have the outcomes they described.
