I can think of another nation that had similar policies and popularity. They were the jewel of eastern Europe and northern Asia, a favorite refuge for those who lived in the Balkans and the go-to place for disenfranchised Slavics. Their wealthy were absurdly wealthy, their poor absurdly poor, but the nation grew nonetheless. Until they had a revolution, that is, because the wealthy drove the poor too far. After an inadvisable war with Japan that ended in failure, the people rebelled, but that revolution was cut short by ultimately ineffective political reform followed by years of repression. Then the first World War made things worse, the people rebelled again, and the elite were overthrown. This country was called Russia.
Sounds to me like you were asking the wrong questions. And not asking for clarification when you didn’t understand. Communication is a two-way street, you can’t expect the other person to just know when you don’t understand, let alone why.
There is a defect in the human brain that causes humans to immediately believe the first thing they hear about a given subject is true. Said defect, left unaddressed, will cause them to defend that first thing they heard no matter what knowledge undermines said first thing. A solution was found to this issue about 2,300 years ago by a man named Aristotle, a process of deduction and logic that disregards first-knowledge bias in favor of seeking an actual answer. This method has since been refined, and is currently known as the “scientific method”.
Multiple cultures have posited that there is no cure for “stupidity”, but there absolutely is. We’ve had said cure for over two millennia, in fact. The main problem is that it generally is best applied during childhood, before the very defect it corrects sets in and prevents it from taking root.
I can think of another nation that had similar policies and popularity. They were the jewel of eastern Europe and northern Asia, a favorite refuge for those who lived in the Balkans and the go-to place for disenfranchised Slavics. Their wealthy were absurdly wealthy, their poor absurdly poor, but the nation grew nonetheless. Until they had a revolution, that is, because the wealthy drove the poor too far. After an inadvisable war with Japan that ended in failure, the people rebelled, but that revolution was cut short by ultimately ineffective political reform followed by years of repression. Then the first World War made things worse, the people rebelled again, and the elite were overthrown. This country was called Russia.