Bhaskar Sunkara
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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invest in education, you'll help people.
If kids are living in poverty, if they go into school hungry or whatever else, education's not going to give them everything they need to succeed.
So sometimes we, I think, put too much weight on education.
Yeah.
A lot of it starts with, so New York city, at least we do have, um, universal pre-K.
So from age three onward, you have the option for that.
I mean, it's important for kids socialization, you know, their parents are now able to, um,
know that they could go to work or do something else and have their kids taken care of.
There's a lot of measures like that that we could do to equalize things.
And again...
For libertarians in the audience, some of this stuff is scary because it's obviously more state involved.
State involved in pre-K.
State is already very involved in K-12.
More investment into state institutions like our state universities and in college.
But for me, it's not a question of state versus non-state.
It's a question of...
you know, good outcomes for, for people.
And it just happens to be that for working class people, um, having the collective power to elect representatives that will build a broader safety net is in their interest.
Um, for upper middle class people, for others, they can afford to pay for their own provisioning either directly or through like Obamacare like schemes where you just get a subsidy and you pay the rest yourself.
Um,
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