Knowledge of subject races is acquired precisely to make management easy and profitable.

Evidence

Once again, knowledge of subject races or Orientals is what makes their management easy and profitable; knowledge gives power, more power requires more knowledge, and so on in an increasingly profitable dialectic of information and control. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 119

Categorization

• XREF: The knowledge-power dialectic anticipates Foucault’s power/knowledge linkage and the biopolitical toolkit the reader is assembling.
• DEFINE: Encapsulates the feedback loop where knowledge enables control, which demands more knowledge.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 119