Bhaskar Sunkara
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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What is at your top?
Yeah, universal health care is probably far higher in my priorities than free college.
I think right now the way our system is built.
When someone goes to college, they're given credentials, they're given a decree that they carry with them for the rest of their life.
It gives them a chance to join kind of a privileged part of the labor market, right?
It's not a zero-sum game.
I don't want college-educated people to think that non-college-educated people are their enemies and vice versa, because a lot of them are just ordinary working-class people trying to survive.
And they're in different areas or in different sectors.
Some of them are in nursing sectors where they need a college degree and so on.
But if you just make college tuition free, but you don't also make trade skills and other things free for someone to learn how to become an electrician or a plumber or whatever else...
Then to some degree, you're privileging one sector of the labor market over another.
So I would advocate just if you're going to make something like that free, you just have to make sure that you're doing an egalitarian way and that one, the options, the routes to college are more more equal.
So, you know, there's more investment in K through 12 education so that more kids in rough neighborhoods have the chance to go to college.
And for those that choose the trade route from any part of the country, that they're given the skills and resources for vocational, you know, trainings.
And those are also free.
And it just feels like in terms of order of operation, I would just start with K through 12 education, improving it and whatever else.
than college after, but I'm not opposed to it.
in general, when it comes to the public sector or any sphere that you're investing in, obviously it's not just as simple as throwing money at a problem.
I do think we have a lot of schools that are underfunded, but we have other schools that are adequately funded, but the conditions in which those schools are, like the neighborhoods they're in and what's going on in society, the problems are so deep that it's impossible for just education to solve everything.
And I think especially a lot of liberals think that education should be the panacea.
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