It is difficult to make someone understand what their salary depends on them not understanding

When someone’s livelihood is provided for by a given system, they will be strongly predisposed to not seek (or be able) to understand how broken that system may be—their paycheck depends on its persistence. Said more directly:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something,
when his salary depends on his not understanding it. —Upton Sinclair

#cognition

see also:

• It is impossible to teach a man what he thinks he already knows
• Systems Thinking perceives the relationships and structure of complex systems