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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 4 months agoSubsidizing the cost of public goods is absolutely within the government’s remit.
We already do. Do you think public colleges don’t receive tax money?
The barrier is simply cost. It would cost too much to do. We already run at a deficit, which is driving inflation. Taking on a wasteful cost, such as paying for idiots to get college degrees, would add zero benefits and destroy poor people with inflation.
If we want to make it free, we need to ration it to only the best. I wouldn’t mind paying for it at that point.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 4 months ago
I don’t they receive enough. They’re not what’s driving the deficit, and the deficit isn’t what’s driving inflation. It’s mainly corporate greed.
There’s nothing wasteful about education the population. It’s simply a qualitative good, which is not compatible with your quantitative mindset.
There’s no such thing as rationing knowledge. That’s a dangerous position.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Why do you keep trying to build a strawman? LIke any resource, we have limits.
We need to spend those resources on the people best capable of using them.
BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Education does not grow on trees. It does not need grown in a garden. It does not require water and sunlight. It cannot be loaded onto a truck and dispersed through a distribution network. Stores do not have education shortages. We are not killing the planet due to the emissions of knowledge. It is not bound by the same physical limitations that resources you are referencing have. This is another example of how your quantitative mindset cannot comprehend a qualitative good.
We need to spend more resources on making our people better, not subsidizing businesses that still charge the people directly.