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Its designed that way. How else are the rich going to preserve their wealth?
by babesh 8y ago
Its designed that way. How else are the rich going to preserve their wealth?
- ralusek 8y agoYou live in a cartoon. There isn't some collective of rich white men ensuring that we keep people uneducated so that they can preserve their wealth. Wealth is not a zero sum game. Companies like Google and Apple don't benefit and get to keep their wealth by having an uneducated population.
- Ma8ee 8y agoA functioning wellfare state requires that you tax the rich. If everyone should get the same opportunities as the rich kid, their parents need to help paying also for the poor kids' opportunities.
- lern_too_spel 8y agoRich parents have the time and money to push for better schools. Companies have little to do with it. Even in Google's hometown, the elementary school with the most low income kids has lead in its drinking water. https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2018/02/09/elevated-lead-levels-found-in-theuerkauf-water https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2018/02/09/elevated-lead-level...
- babesh 8y agoYou are wrong. Betsy DeVos Donald Trump Koch brothers They promote for profit schools but the vouchers they propose wouldn't cover the cost of better private schools. Google Koch pro school choice voucher Arizona. 90% voucher of previous cost.
- babesh 8y agoWealth is a catch-all for all sorts of things. Some forms of wealth behave more like zero sum games (when resources are limited or where network effects means that winner takes all). Other forms of wealth are less like that (knowledge?). Even some forms of knowledge seem to be zero sum (having nuclear weapons and preventing your enemy from having them).