His claim about what we learn in school may be plausible, but would argue that it doesn't justify forcing everyone to pay billions of dollars per year for it and that there are other more productive ways of achieving the same things.
Imagine walking up to someone and robbing them at gunpoint. They say "What the hell, man? Why are you doing this?" and you reply "I'm using the money to teach kids about the dating market. You're welcome." I'm not so sure that this would pass any rational person's common sense moral test let alone hold up in court.
By this “held up at gunpoint” test, taxation seems unjustifiable for just about any purpose. Whether or not it’s correct, the argument you’re making doesn’t say anything about education in particular.
There are a lot of injustices in the world, and one has to rank them in order of importance in order to judge what to do about them.
When I was growing up public education cost 1/2 as much (inflation adjusted), was far more non-ideological and neurotic, hadn't been through as many iterations of idiotic "reform", along with several other differences. I won't even get into COVID. The private school we send our kids too is basically the same as the public school I went to in the 80s, though they probably go outside more often and the teachers and students seem happier and nicer. Even the cost is the same (a fraction of what our district spends per student).
The K-12 I grew up with therefore wasn't great, and individuals could have spent their money better themselves, but it was probably "good enough". It was mediocre daycare whose cost wasn't too far from what daycare would cost.
Nowadays its atrocious, and one has a moral duty to try to defund it in favor of ESAs.
I agree that taxation is unjustifiable. I also think it's easier to attempt to justify it in situations where the benefit is more than some phantasmal immeasurable benefit, so in this instance it's plainly obvious that it's unidentifiable.
What a wonderful tribute. We should all be so lucky.
His claim about what we learn in school may be plausible, but would argue that it doesn't justify forcing everyone to pay billions of dollars per year for it and that there are other more productive ways of achieving the same things.
Imagine walking up to someone and robbing them at gunpoint. They say "What the hell, man? Why are you doing this?" and you reply "I'm using the money to teach kids about the dating market. You're welcome." I'm not so sure that this would pass any rational person's common sense moral test let alone hold up in court.
By this “held up at gunpoint” test, taxation seems unjustifiable for just about any purpose. Whether or not it’s correct, the argument you’re making doesn’t say anything about education in particular.
There are a lot of injustices in the world, and one has to rank them in order of importance in order to judge what to do about them.
When I was growing up public education cost 1/2 as much (inflation adjusted), was far more non-ideological and neurotic, hadn't been through as many iterations of idiotic "reform", along with several other differences. I won't even get into COVID. The private school we send our kids too is basically the same as the public school I went to in the 80s, though they probably go outside more often and the teachers and students seem happier and nicer. Even the cost is the same (a fraction of what our district spends per student).
The K-12 I grew up with therefore wasn't great, and individuals could have spent their money better themselves, but it was probably "good enough". It was mediocre daycare whose cost wasn't too far from what daycare would cost.
Nowadays its atrocious, and one has a moral duty to try to defund it in favor of ESAs.
I agree that taxation is unjustifiable. I also think it's easier to attempt to justify it in situations where the benefit is more than some phantasmal immeasurable benefit, so in this instance it's plainly obvious that it's unidentifiable.
Unjustifiable*
You don't need university to learn the things he mentioned