j.r. leonard

What I mean by bringing up the profit incentive is that it raises the costs. If you operate housing without any profit incentive it keeps the costs lower because nobody makes money off the enterprise.

Profit incentive is generally okay if not good if you allow for competition in established fields.

Right but why would we want to use public money to help landlords get richer instead of using public money to finance housing directly? I don’t care about landlords. I care about the people who need low cost housing.

It’s the same with the school debate. Every dollar we give in vouchers to profiteering charter school companies takes money that could have been put directly into the public school system and not line any pockets!

No offense, but your views on these things are so fundamentally naive and complete ignore the reality of how public services are provisioned in poor and non-white communities

Vouchers and charter schools are different. Charter schools have some success in some specific areas, usually areas where public schools failed bc of poor administration. They are comparably worse as the public schools system improves. Prob even out at slightly below avg.

Vouchers don’t work much of anywhere if the standard is educational attainment. My understanding is that most parents like schools that reflect their social values instead of provide a good education, so educational attainment is only relevant for we nerds.

Then perhaps schooling should have less to do with parents personal preferences and more to do with high public educational quality. Amazing idea I know.