There are many different cultures among the wealthy, just as there are many cultures among the poor. So culture is not the distinguishing factor, as you originally claimed. Wealth, however, is.

Reliable spelling is pretty irrelevant, especially in the age of spellcheck. Phonics is about READING. Understanding Latin, Greek, French, and German will certainly help with advanced etymology, but you don't really have to know the history of the bi- prefix to understand it means "2." Learning multiple languages is always a great advantage. . .but you want to teach reading in all those languages with phonics.

Whatever criticisms you have of phonics, I challenge you to cite an alternative method of teaching reading that is equivalent, let alone better. Empirically, no other method has been able to effectively teach reading.

You keep using the word "culture" when you should be using "wealth." There are plenty of highly successful schools and students in dense urban areas. They are the ones with money.

You're being obtuse. Reading advertisements also involves reading. That doesn't meant that a person who reads a lot of advertisements will develop the reading skills necessary to understand a complicated technical manual or a dense work of literature.

If I do addition and subtraction every day it doesn't mean I understand calculus.

I do not know why you equate a nonprofit entity with amateurism. Nonprofit defines the tax status of an organization, it does not define their professionalism or (despite the name) profitability.

There are legitimate criticisms on can make of the EU. None of that negates the fact that the U.S. is descending into a fascist oligarchy.

Can we please nationalize them now, so we have a post office again?

How do you enshitify shit?

Most bigfoot sightings are bears with mange. They lose a bunch of weight and walk on their hind legs. Look up some images of bears with mange and you'll see that 1) it's an extremely sad sight and 2) they look like bigfoot.

Mange also explains the smell.

You are replying to a troll who thought he just delivered a knock-out punch zinger. He will not understand any argument premised on ethics.

Now that more people know what the installation entails, fewer will be inclined to press that button.

Why you find it upsetting that an article would bring to light extraneous installations in one of the most widely distributed pieces of software is beyond me. Seems newsworthy to me.