The rent is not flowing to myself. Universal education is the way to go. My dad fought in WW2. He got to go to college for free (mostly free) because of the

The rent is not flowing to myself. Universal education is the way to go. My dad fought in WW2. He got to go to college for free (mostly free) because of the GI Bill. Younger siblings didn't. They were poor. He ended up much better off than the younger siblings. It's called the greatest generation but the only reason I can see for th8s is because they had the greatest opportunities presented to them. His professors weren't rent seekers and they got paid better than me. See it's possible to live in a system in which people make a reasonable wage without being rent seekers or others getting screwed. I'm using rent seeker in the pejorative sense that term denotes in colloquial speech. It's not a zero sum game. Society was better for the GI Bill. Even those who didn't directly use it. My uncles, while not being as well off as my dad, were better off overall. They got out of poverty as the economy got better. We had a system in which college didn't put people in penury, didn't keep rents flowing to teachers, and was an overall benefit to dociety. I grew up in Panama. During Noriega times were tough. People did things for far less than they normally would have. After all, the value of a glass of water to someone dying of thirst is far greater than it is to me in my present condition. There's a point where the race to the bottom becomes dehumanizing. There's more than maximizing/minimizing dollars. I feel sorry for people who can't see that. I've never met you personally but from posts I've seen of yours you appear to be a libertarian with a reverence to market forces. In a world of 7 billion people I think most libertarian ideas don't scale well. I used slavery in the normal sense of the word. Think hard enough and you'll see that man in desperation can volunteer to be indentured but when the situation isn't so bleak he will try to leave. Of course his desire to increase his wages may lead to a violent response from the employer. Especially if the practice has become normative.