Is it because there is more money to be made in continuing problems than in solved problems?
It is because our public school reading programs have been purposely dumbed down in order to produce dumber (and easily influenced) citizenry.
Post of the day. Absolutely correct.
Exactly! There is no money in the cure, only treatment.
Bingo.
This applies in many ways to our approach to medicine, also. And why we keep letting builders build substandard homes in areas with hurricanes and tornados. Lots of money to be made in cleaning up messes which should never have happened, and keeping things in a perpetual substandard state.