Why Are People So Stupid?

Honestly, I mean WTF. I was in the gas station this morning, and I bought a bottle of Mtn Dew, World of Warcraft Game Fuel, (HORDE of course!) And I handed the dude $37.92 And said, this, and the change on pump 1. He looked at me like I just asked him to kill his own grandmother. He looked at me, then at the money, then at the pump. Then he said "um..." I mean WTF? All he had to do was ring up the drink, type in 3792 then the cash register would do the math for him, IT WOULD DO THE MATH FOR HIM he did not even have to figure it out. SO what did he do? He took two fives out of the register and made change for the ten I gave him, so he would have a 20, two 5's and two 1's Instead of the 20, 10, and two 1's I gave him. Then he took the money for the drink out of one of the 5' s so he he could make change for that, then he counted that, and stopped because he realized he missed a step somewhere and looked around bewildered again, and at that point I just told him how much to charge me and he nodded and smiled and set the pump for what I said.
So, I think this is a great example of where our country is headed, the new cash registers have auto change slots, they don't even need to know how to count change. We need to be either stupid, or lazy because if we were all intelligent and active, we would realize not only how badly the government is screwing us, but we would be smart enough and strong enough to actually do something about it. They want us stupid. And they are doing a great job of it!