If 2 is true our politics (at least in the U.S.) haven't caught up. We have to be comfortable with the idea of simply giving money away to people who are not ea

If 2 is true our politics (at least in the U.S.) haven't caught up. We have to be comfortable with the idea of simply giving money away to people who are not earning it, or giving them more than the market would otherwise bear. One of the ways we could do that is by making university tuition free, to say "well, if you can't get a job, you can always spend your time thinking instead." Instead we're restricting access to univerisities more and more based on the idea that a university education is only about getting a job and you should have to have "skin in the game". We've been making it harder, not easier, for people who aren't working to access the collective product of society, and we're all poorer for that.