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Public schools are for profit, that profit comes out of tax payers against their will. Just because they have a tax free status doesn't mean they're not lining their pockets with money. Given the massive artificial increases in costs - they are. I've seen it happen in realtime. This doesn't even approach the problem that industry and academics are seperated worlds. Unis lie and tell you everything is "in demand" yet…
> profit comes out of tax payers against their will. And there we have it. The "taxation is theft" heuristic that snaps your perspective into focus. > Private industry should be the one footing the bill and are the most knowleable about what industry wants. Are there any instances where you think this breaks down? There are some industries that very likely would not exist without initial government support because th…
There is little done in modern academics that legitimately drives innovation. Only select institutions, with significant ties to private industry, generate papers and innovation. Largely these are still already done in R&D at a company somewhere.
Public funding for education that works is effectively subsidizing costs for private industry. Public funding that doesnt work is incompetence that benefits no one other then government employees, and that makes it equal to theft.
Therefore, we remove the subsidy, and students that are worth investing in will be paid for by the billions that companies have sitting around collecting dust.