Quote Originally Posted by rong View Post
Succinctly put.


And the things I say should be state controlled, ie education, health care, basic infrastructure, tie in nicely with this question.

Assuming the question (in question) was "what are the perils of the state running these programs?"


I've already beaten the dead horses of healthcare and basic infrastructure into a bloody pulp in this thread, so I'll say a bit about public education.


I think we're going to have front row seats to view the perils of public education during the next 10 or 20 years. The internet is about to revolutionize education, and this is going to be a big problem for public education. We're still using the same 12-13 year primary/secondary + 4-6 year post-secondary template for education that has been in play for like 150 years. It's in the nature of state institutions to get put into place, added on to, even revised occasionally, but never ever removed. I believe we're going to soon discover that it shouldn't take 13 years to train someone to be a person, nor should it take 4-6 years to train them to be a scholar. But these institutions will have an incredible amount of inertia when millions of public sector jobs are at stake.