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but those 'financially irresponsible' people include those who work in professions that don't pay well but the rest of us rely on, like those that care for kids or people with disabilities.

They also include people who have any other unexpected event in their life that affects their employability or income.

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If you want to go into charity work, don't expect to be paid like a brain surgeon. If you can't afford the education required to go into charity work, start a GoFundMe or choose something more attainable. Stop spending other's money because of vague handwavey "we need it and it doesn't pay well"

You're picking two extremes that make your argument sound very simple. But what do you think about teachers? Should we:

a) Forgive their student debt

b) Discourage non-wealthy people from becoming teachers

c) Force schools to pay them more

d) Pay them more via GoFundMe

e) Have less educated teachers

f) Rely on teachers less and let their value be established by the free market

Being forced to pay a school that your children don't attend is rent seeking. Strip schools of all rent seeking funding, make tax money follow the child and let the parents on vote what education style works with their children's attendance.

If you've got the answers to these difficult problems, what's stopping you from enacting them?

The problems I'm paid to solve pay a lot more. More than triple the maximum salary of government officials.

Anyone can give an untested hypothesis and claim it will solve the problem. Executing a plan competently and being held accountable for the result is a much bigger challenge.

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