useful knowledge is a public right, with or without the hoops of formal instruction.
poverty would not exist without making everything have to be about money.
or at least, how would you define it, without that context.
not saying it can't be, nor denying that there's a kind of 'economic' circulation that takes place in nature,
which is, incedentally, untouched by our concepts of symbolic value.
once upon a time, there was a great idea, it was called the community collage,
a tuition free alternative to expensive universities, to give intellegent and creative young people,
who's parents did not have mega-fortunes to burn.
that was, the whole point, of the community college alternative.
there are tradeoffs here. education is an investment, by a nation, ultimately in its own future and survival.
for a thousand years, called the mid evil, only the one percent could afford to do real scientific research,
and even they were at risk for their lives to do so.
imagine two worlds; one in which the industrial revolutions would have never happened, because the renasaunce never did,
or one in which those thousand years were never lost to the hatred of logic and thus no revolution was needed to make up for the time lost to them.
which would we rather have for a future?
some things depend on consensus, even when they're not directly and formally put to a vote.
this is one of them.
