The primary incentive for the state to nurture a strong, skilled and educated labour force is to build an highly industrialized, high-value society; without that, the education and worldview, therefore, dignity, of the populace is thrown into the trash bin and allowed to decay. Some of the decay translates into what some may view as decadence.
I wasn’t accusing you of meaning it in that way, I was saying that’s my reading of how it’s usually deployed. This isn’t Reddit where every comment should be taken as disagreement. Man this federation shit sucks.