Franklin: Ignorance Is Expensive

What Ben Franklin says here makes sense.  In particular:

We don’t want to live among hateful morons, not only because they’re repulsive, but because such people, when given the right to vote, tend to elect demagogues, aka criminal sociopaths.  If you look around America in the year 2025, you’ll see what I mean.

Ignorance is more explicitly expensive when it comes to the costs imposed on a society of under- and unemployable people, associated with the prosecution and warehousing of criminals.