Kasz216 said:
Because they aren't so much mad that they were lied to as they are mad that the lie isn't true. It would be like being told Santa Claus isn't real as a kid, and not being mad or upset at your parents for lying but being mad at the Macy's Santa for not shelling out for gifts for you. I'm not even sure it's a "Lie" though. All I was ever told about college is that if you get a degree is SOMETHING then you are much more likely to get a job. Which is true, look at the comparative unemployment rates. If anything I think i'd blame it more on "immortality" syndrome. I forget what it's really called, but in general the belief that all bad things happen to other people and everything will work out for you because you view yourself as special. It's like when people who love music and start a band complain because the "music industry is keeping them down and letting no talent hacks make music." |
I would use a different analogy ...
Subway enters a new market and heavily advertises that you can lose weight simply by eating at Subway and uses many clever slogans like “6 subs with 6 grams of fat or less”. While some people read the fine print of Subway’s campaigns and understand the claims that Subway is making, most people take for granted that Subway is a healthy place to eat and are oblivious to the choices they would need to make to lose weight while eating Subway.
For four years these people eat multiple times a day at Subway and talk about how great they’re doing and only rarely have their ignorance spoiled by someone pointing out that their double meat, double cheese, cold-cut heavy sandwich that is covered in mayo and sub-sauces that they combine with a gigantic sugar filled beverage and a bag of chips has enough calories to feed a family of four; and even then they would need to exercise regularly to see the kinds of gains that Subway advertised. But they simply ignore them because Subway would never advertise their food as being healthy while selling unhealthy food.
Eventually they find themselves grossly obese, and they’re angry that they did what they were told to and it turned out so poorly for them. They decide to protest and they storm down to their local gym and start harassing fit people as they’re entering and leaving the gym. These obese people have come to the conclusion that, since Subway couldn’t possibly have mislead them for their own gain, that there must be a limit to the amount of fitness that could exist in the world and that the top 1% of fit people must be hording it all.
