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Sure, but you could say that about anything the government spends money on. I happen to believe that the value of the educational system far outweighs the small
by stinkytaco 16y ago
Sure, but you could say that about anything the government spends money on. I happen to believe that the value of the educational system far outweighs the small amount of money wasted on 5,000 waiters. And the bureaucracy of weeding out those 5,000 waiters would far outspend the cost of just paying for their PhDs. Do you suggest that we mandate what jobs anyone who gets a state education gets?
- yummyfajitas 16y agoThat's exactly the test I would use for anything the government spends money on. It's called a cost/benefit analysis. If our elected officials are not doing that, we should immediately vote them out of office. Would I demand 100 hours of labor from 25 people to lock a rapist away from them for 2 years? Yes. Would I demand 100 hours of labor from 25 people to lock a pot smoker away from them for 2 years? No. 2500 hours of labor to kill a few Iraqis? Not liking that so much. 2500 hours of labor to vaccinate 800 babies against MMR? I'm ok with that. Now, it might not be cost effective to police the educational system for people wasting their education. But that's not the argument elbenshira was making, or what I was arguing against.
- access_denied 16y agoAn English BA who is waiting tables isn't necessarily wasting their education.
- shadowfox 16y agoThe problem with this sort of thing is that the perceived benefit is often quite subjective. It is hard to define and get people to agree on a quantitative measure to use for evaluation