JAHFIRST wrote:
I've been wrestling with this question for years.  It seems to me if it was entirely financially motivated, then why would they encourage Witnesses to be uneducated and poor? Wouldn't they make more loot if their drones were raking in big bucks and throwing mass amounts of cash at them, rather than just a little here & there? 
I'm thinking for the GB it must be more about power than money, but I dunno. Thoughts?
If the GB want to keep their numbers up and the money pouring in ... it's easier for them to keep the masses uneducated.   Educated people ask more questions and delve deeper into the why's and where's ... whereas the relatively uneducated people are happy to just plod along and literally do as they're told.    It's all a matter of control.    Control brings power ... power brings control.

As for the GB and others in the higher chairs of JW authority ... they are religious zealots who enjoy the control they have over others.    In the real world they'd be nobodies.     In the borg they are akin to being god himself.     Or at least that's what THEY like to think!