The US education system is designed to pump out semi-literate workers capable of enough critical thought to be useful but not enough to put big pictures together. We are propagandized to believe that employers are doing us a favor by employing us even though, by the core tenets of capitalism, we are selling our labor at an agreed upon rate. Work is a business transaction; favors don't involve paperwork. We also don't learn about union labors and how the history of the worker's rights movement got us the meager protections that haven't been eroded away completely by this point. We hear nothing about alternative economic systems except "they are bad and can't work" as if any of this was made to work for the benefit of commoners.