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It's interesting that all problems in America are due to "funding". It's actually quite curious because funding was a problem for electric vehicles, funding was

It's interesting that all problems in America are due to "funding". It's actually quite curious because funding was a problem for electric vehicles, funding was a problem for space, funding was a problem for literally everything. But then sometimes people come up and succeed at things that others have described as a funding problem for ages. I think I can conclude reasonably from this is that the lowest efficiency lever one can pull is funding. Schools with the highest funding have the worst performance. That's because the people there only know one answer to every problem: "funding".

devbent 3y ago
> Schools with the highest funding have the worst performance. It could also be because the schools with the most special / high needs children need the most funding. Schools in poor neighborhoods need more help just to achieve median results. They need to contend with issues like teen pregnancies, drug use, violence, and kids who don't even have food at home. Compare those challenges to rich suburban kids and of course the schools in poor areas need more funding.
feoren 3y ago
> Schools with the highest funding have the worst performance. Spills with the most paper towels are the messiest. Why does everyone think they need paper towels to clean up spills!?
- janalsncm 3y ago
  Hospitals have higher mortality rates than grocery stores. If I have a heart attack you’ll find me in the deli.
janalsncm 3y ago
The billionaires who look for every tax loophole possible certainly know the value of “funding”. They are currently funding their yachts to take them to their superyachts. Private equity controlled health care companies are extracting billions of dollars in profits (read: overcharging people who want to live) leading to “efficiencies” like understaffing and under training which cause thousands of excess deaths every year. Elon Musk received plenty of government funding for his companies as well. And guess what? BYD sells more cars than Tesla now (a few years ago Elon said he wasn’t worried about them and now they’re suddenly a problem) because of what? Government funding. Governments have also funded the majority of fundamental research which made present day technologies possible. Even today NIST, DARPA, NHS, NSF etc continue to fund science and technology research.

devbent 3y ago

> Schools with the highest funding have the worst performance. It could also be because the schools with the most special / high needs children need the most funding. Schools in poor neighborhoods need more help just to achieve median results. They need to contend with issues like teen pregnancies, drug use, violence, and kids who don't even have food at home. Compare those challenges to rich suburban kids and of course the schools in poor areas need more funding.

feoren 3y ago

> Schools with the highest funding have the worst performance. Spills with the most paper towels are the messiest. Why does everyone think they need paper towels to clean up spills!?

janalsncm 3y ago
Hospitals have higher mortality rates than grocery stores. If I have a heart attack you’ll find me in the deli.

janalsncm 3y ago

The billionaires who look for every tax loophole possible certainly know the value of “funding”. They are currently funding their yachts to take them to their superyachts. Private equity controlled health care companies are extracting billions of dollars in profits (read: overcharging people who want to live) leading to “efficiencies” like understaffing and under training which cause thousands of excess deaths every year. Elon Musk received plenty of government funding for his companies as well. And guess what? BYD sells more cars than Tesla now (a few years ago Elon said he wasn’t worried about them and now they’re suddenly a problem) because of what? Government funding. Governments have also funded the majority of fundamental research which made present day technologies possible. Even today NIST, DARPA, NHS, NSF etc continue to fund science and technology research.