Or should I just start casually addressing how nearly everything in society has turned into a pathetic money-making scheme that under-delivers on every single broken promise.
Oh and creates GOVERNMENT DEPENDENCY aka slavery.
Why aren't textbooks free? Government funded video archives of recorded lectures would not be nearly as expensive to produce as all these wasteful expenditures for gender programs in Pakistan.
Even uploading lectures to a corporate video site could at least monetize them with ads.
The answer is: Nobody wants "free education". They just want to scam people into thinking they do so they can scam them more.
Is anyone else sick of this?
Why am I pretending to debate people who aren't interested in actually providing professional and classical "education" to as many people as possible on the lowest cost possible? Or even debating what's useful in schools.
Everybody who goes into government always wants the most wasteful, expensive, least efficient, self-destructive thing possible.
Can we just address this and fix it?
Why are people learning about sex, race, drugs, and "black lives" at all instead of basic skills in economics, budget, shooting, sewing, basic electronics, etc?
The "education" industry is ruining everybody.
Fun facts:
Individual exploration of books and Socratic method individual tutoring is the classical form of achieving enlightened education, along with some military training and ‘le grand tour’ foreign travel during young adulthood.
Unschoolers who engage in no formal curriculum test within a single grade level of their school-imprisoned age peers, and home schooled students perform far better.
Google already has the full text of almost every book in existence digitized and OCR’d. It’s just not available... to you.
All the classics ARE available right now, for free, at https://www.gutenberg.org
Copyright is a form of government monopoly, not an inalienable right, ethical principle, or market necessity.
The real-world outcomes from copyright and other ‘intellectual property’ enforcement are exactly opposite of the justifications and reasoning on which the laws creating them were ‘sold’ to the public.
‘Intellectual Property’ was a term Bill Clinton popularized to fool people into believing that offshoring our manufacturing wouldn’t decimate our economy and national security.
Intellectual Property is information, not fungible property. It doesn’t truly exhibit any of the normal attributes associated with property, such as natural depreciation or scarcity.
There are 90s RINOs on this board who won't like what you're saying.
I always ask "What is the lat. and long. of this intellectual property?"
No problem with copyright for life of the author/27 years for a company (they need a timeframe because companies are theoretically immortal). Patents somewhat similarly.
But the idea of "IP" on Children's Stories or Birthday Songs getting on a century old is absurd.