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Culture is often invisible to the person who is embedded in it, but controls and constrains their actions, and guides their beliefs.
Take the idea of an equality/efficiency tradeoff. Where the idea is ingrained in the culture (US/UK) attitudes towards things like labor unions and other things that might bring about a more equal distribution of wealth are effected by this underlying idea in culture.
What you get when you do a survey that shows resistance to progressive taxation, etc, is what people believe, not why.
And culture is at heart, the why factor. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
culture is at heart, the why factor
Think about how Keynes was killed off, and replaced by Milton Friedman and the Chicago gang.
Ideology is an important source of power in modern societies.
Control how people see the world, and you can coerce them into doing what you want without them knowing it...... And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
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