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Let the market solve it. If the market requires educated adults the market will create that environment or something, answer is probably private schools. I assu

by barbazoo 10mo ago

Let the market solve it. If the market requires educated adults the market will create that environment or something, answer is probably private schools. I assume they’d say something like that.

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smueller1234 10mo ago
Slight problem with that if you would like to live in a functioning, thriving democracy: democracy in the sense of "one person, one vote" requires or at least greatly benefits from a broadly educated population. It's not sufficient, but very likely necessary.
- barbazoo 10mo ago
  See my last sentence
bmitc 10mo ago
The market has never solved anything in ways that are beneifical for humanity. (Just commenting on the first part of your comment, given that your last sentence implies you're just saying what market evangelists would say.)
onraglanroad 10mo ago
I think you're going to attract downvotes from people who just read your first sentence and assume that's the actual gist of your post.
- pandaman 10mo ago
  And the people who read the whole comment and see the low effort straw man argument.
nobody9999 10mo ago
>Let the market solve it. If the market requires educated adults the market will create that environment or something, answer is probably private schools. I assume they’d say something like that. I don't pretend to speak for anyone else, but I am more than my economic inputs and outputs, and while it was in a somewhat different context, Heinlein's prose applies in spades WRT your assertion: “I had to perform an act of faith. I had to prove to myself that I was a man. Not just a producing-consuming economic animal…but a man.” ― Robert A. Heinlein[0][1] [0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11588525-i-had-to-perform-an-act-of-faith-i-had https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11588525-i-had-to-perform-a... [1] From Starship Troopers[2] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers

Let the market solve it. If the market requires educated adults the market will create that environment or something, answer is probably private schools. I assume they’d say something like that.

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smueller1234 10mo ago

Slight problem with that if you would like to live in a functioning, thriving democracy: democracy in the sense of "one person, one vote" requires or at least greatly benefits from a broadly educated population. It's not sufficient, but very likely necessary.

barbazoo 10mo ago
See my last sentence

bmitc 10mo ago

The market has never solved anything in ways that are beneifical for humanity. (Just commenting on the first part of your comment, given that your last sentence implies you're just saying what market evangelists would say.)

onraglanroad 10mo ago

I think you're going to attract downvotes from people who just read your first sentence and assume that's the actual gist of your post.

pandaman 10mo ago
And the people who read the whole comment and see the low effort straw man argument.

nobody9999 10mo ago

>Let the market solve it. If the market requires educated adults the market will create that environment or something, answer is probably private schools. I assume they’d say something like that. I don't pretend to speak for anyone else, but I am more than my economic inputs and outputs, and while it was in a somewhat different context, Heinlein's prose applies in spades WRT your assertion: “I had to perform an act of faith. I had to prove to myself that I was a man. Not just a producing-consuming economic animal…but a man.” ― Robert A. Heinlein[0][1] [0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11588525-i-had-to-perform-an-act-of-faith-i-had https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11588525-i-had-to-perform-a... [1] From Starship Troopers[2] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers