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Who will pay for it? We can't even pay for education or healthcare.
by joquarky 6mo ago
Who will pay for it? We can't even pay for education or healthcare.
- anigbrowl 6mo agoWe can, we just choose not to because of how we prioritize accounting. I see no reason why a well-run program shouldn't pay for itself since people would be doing some work as well as getting trained. Obviously, I'm picturing this as part of a broad realignment of national priorities and governance mores, not as a drop-in solution that we could just put in place tomorrow.
- the_sleaze_ 6mo agoUSA pays the most for education per capita of any other nation on the planet. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-expenditures-by-country#:~:text=*%2014%20countries%2C%20including%20the%20United%20States%2C,each)%20than%20the%20average%20of%20OECD%20countries. https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...