> Why not double down and give each child two tutors (furthermore called parents) @ $50,000/yr?
What happens if they have two or more children? What if they want other jobs? What real bearing does this have on the fundamental problem?
> I hate to have to say this but GDP isn’t the absolute upper limit for government spending.
I didn't suggest it was. I'm showing that if you want to have high value education, it would become about 10% of the total economy. Does that seem "prohibitive" to you?
> At some point someone has to generate actual value for them to appropriate for their political ends.
And educating children has no value?
> This is the only time I’ve ever wanted the AI to generate a reply for me but, alas, that’s not in my current skill set.
> Obviously, as a cost cutting measure, we will pay $50k per child to each of the parents.
What is your reasoning for believing this would improve outcomes?
> I don’t actually understand what the problem is we’re trying to solve here, honestly.
Really? We spend a lot on education. Our outcomes are demonstrably sub-optimal. There's no correlation between amount spent in a classroom and classroom outcomes. There's obviously a large flaw in the entire model.
> Give them all an AI and call it a day.
Well.. when we invent an actual AI and not some hallucinatory language model, let me know, until then, you're obviously not serious or willing to play fast and loose with something important.
Hard to believe we're struggling to get this right.
What happens if they have two or more children? What if they want other jobs? What real bearing does this have on the fundamental problem?
> I hate to have to say this but GDP isn’t the absolute upper limit for government spending.
I didn't suggest it was. I'm showing that if you want to have high value education, it would become about 10% of the total economy. Does that seem "prohibitive" to you?
> At some point someone has to generate actual value for them to appropriate for their political ends.
And educating children has no value?
> This is the only time I’ve ever wanted the AI to generate a reply for me but, alas, that’s not in my current skill set.
Well, some educations have no value, I guess.