If additional people want to pay beyond the cap, wonderful. But I don’t see how the financials make any sense otherwise.
I'm really tired of being told "we can't afford to give healthcare" "we can't afford to give higher education" "we can't afford early childcare" "we can't afford maturity leave" "we can't afford guaranteed sick/vacation"
Of course we can. The powers at be don't want that because it levels the playing field, costs them some money, and ultimately makes them less powerful.
The good part is that all of this will sort itself out. Economic gravity will hit and democracy will sort out who pays the bill.
Emotionally speaking my friend’s kid has muscular dystrophy and it’s extremely sad and heart wrenching to watch what was formerly an active toddler degrade into wheel chair bound pain and suffering, leading to a death around 30 years old. I wish society would put unlimited funds into solving this disease because I personally see how devastating it is to my friend’s family and the child himself.
However in an argument about where to allocate scarce resources, putting all of our money into solving that is probably not what most people would choose.
Similarly I don’t think unlimited free education to every 18 year old is a good choice, despite emotional pleas.
if we want to solve the worlds problems we need more people with the capacity to work on them. only education is capable of doing that.
I like to use rhetoric to debate topics, ideally with facts and statistics. Attacking someone else personally, or making up a lot of stuff about them, is a very weak line of attack (for me at least) when trying to push your point forwards.
This is an anonymous Internet forum so I don’t have a degree, I was raised by a single mother and an abusive uncle who beat me with a belt when I asked for more eggs at breakfast. What difference does it make?