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Libraries and education are an investment even for a capitalist. The only beneficiaries of lacking both are religious slave states.
Indeed, there have been studies that education is one of the highest RoI investments a country can make.
For oligarchy they are not, since economic development reduces the oligarch's power, which is a thing relative to the total size of economy. Same with social power.