good point. and I don't disagree with you, but I'd take your argument to the next level about education and say we can educate a heck of a lot more people, more cheaply, and do it on more useful topics, which build more useful, core, long-term, non-profession-specific skills, if we wanted to.
It doesn't necessarily require throwing more money, in aggregate, at the education space. May mean spending less, but smarter. Lots of free ways to learn between the Internet, public libraries, family, neighbors, the physical opportunities of the world around us, and life itself. Helping more people to have better focus and willpower, and better emotional balance, and health, would go a long way to improving a lot of other things with the economy, even if indirectly.
For example, given a choice between having 1 more fellow citizen become a scientist or engineer, or instead having 10 more fellow citizens not steal, hurt people, be lazy, lack the ability to think logically, be swayed by propaganda when voting, lack ability to manage their own money, lack ability to plan for their future and understand consequences of their choices, and understand the impacts of their choices on their children, family, neighbors, future generations, etc -- I'll take the second option, please.
More "higher" education? Good. Much better "lower" education? Ten times as good, I bet.
It doesn't necessarily require throwing more money, in aggregate, at the education space. May mean spending less, but smarter. Lots of free ways to learn between the Internet, public libraries, family, neighbors, the physical opportunities of the world around us, and life itself. Helping more people to have better focus and willpower, and better emotional balance, and health, would go a long way to improving a lot of other things with the economy, even if indirectly.
For example, given a choice between having 1 more fellow citizen become a scientist or engineer, or instead having 10 more fellow citizens not steal, hurt people, be lazy, lack the ability to think logically, be swayed by propaganda when voting, lack ability to manage their own money, lack ability to plan for their future and understand consequences of their choices, and understand the impacts of their choices on their children, family, neighbors, future generations, etc -- I'll take the second option, please.
More "higher" education? Good. Much better "lower" education? Ten times as good, I bet.