"brings in money" is so specious. The whole system is subject to how the accounting is structured. Education certainly produces community value. Moving around

"brings in money" is so specious. The whole system is subject to how the accounting is structured. Education certainly produces community value. Moving around what column the cost and benefits should be attributed to is a kind of social gerrymandering. It's a function of ideology and power asymmetry. A well educated populace will of course be better off. You're not going to find out why police make twice as much as teachers with neoliberal economics. Fabulists depict things this way to remove human agency and make specific legislative and policy decisions take on the authority of natural law, as if it's a scientific absolute. It's just a slight of hand. All these things can be changed and the sky will not fall.