To acknowledge the fact that the broken educational and skills-building system is responsible for much of the growing inequality that ordinary people experience would, however, detract from the larger populist agenda of rallying the masses against the very rich. It has the inconvenient implication that the poor have a role in pulling themselves out of the morass.
但是，承认教育和技能培养体系的崩坏应该对普通人所经历的不平等性恶化负有很大责任这一事实会破坏民粹主义者将脏水泼到巨富阶层身上的大计。可怜之人必有可恨之处，这一推论有些令人难以接受。修正教育并非一两天就能完成的事情——自20世纪70年代的福特开始，历任美国总统都呼吁进行教育改革，但收效甚微。相反，将矛头指向无辜的1%有利于立刻可以减小的再分配政策的出台。