wealth doesn't dribble down but a cure to cancer does -- I'm not advocating for overinvesting in the top of the distribution but governments can have legitimate

wealth doesn't dribble down but a cure to cancer does -- I'm not advocating for overinvesting in the top of the distribution but governments can have legitimate, prosocial goals that involve cultivating specific talents heard a throwaway comment in a podcast that poor countries have to invest in the top of the distribution because they have limited resources and need to max out highly-educated people so they can develop their tech economy. (I wish I had a real footnote for that claim or understood it better). If you model the US as a poor nation that's falling behind its peers, or more plausibly, if you modify half of US states this way, there's an argument we should have the same education strategy as india or 1990s china.