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6 sats \ 19 replies \ @CliffBadger 18h \ on: If you were an authoritarian leader, what weird things would you do? AskSN
Finally someone's asking the important question.
Public schools are orphans-only now. Everyone else go home.
So people only get the education their parents can afford?
Sounds like a great recipe for huge and entrenched inequality...and a massive waste of human capital potential.
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Yes. Everyone has to pay for their own wifi.
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Children usually only have access to wifi if their parents can afford it.
Many, probably most, parents, globally, cannot afford wifi.
All children deserve free education and the opportunity to develop their productive and creative potential- any government that ignores maximising the development of this huge source of wealth and well being is negligent.
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Nothing the government provides is free. They demand obedience in return.
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Good government invests in the wealth creation potential of its territory and people.
Everyone wins.
Without good government people cannot enjoy the security and property rights essential to a healthy productive economy and society.
Without good government you have chaos and law of the jungle.
People who say they don't want taxes and government have never lived where there are neither- they really should go to experience the reality of their Libertarian wet dreams and see for themselves but they never do because that would be facing reality...and they would not last long without the security and wealth government provides.
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My friend, if my country adopted your model of good government I'd be dead in a week for thoughtcrime. I'll take my chances with the jungle.
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You cannot explain the reasoning behind this comment.
Because it is not based on logic, but misrepresentation.
At best hyperbole, at worst, trolling.
You do this because your ideology cannot be easily defended with reason.
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Where's the hyperbole? Do you think the PRC is "good government"? If I were a citizen, would I be allowed to say the CCP is infested with demons? Because if you don't think such basic self-expression should be permitted then I can't take seriously your claims about how an ideal society should look.