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Education Cannot Solve Everything
2:34:37 - 2:44:05 (09:27)
The problems facing education in America are deep and often cannot be solved by education alone. While underfunding may be an issue for some schools, simply increasing funding will not solve deeper issues in society such as inequality and access to resources.
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The speaker emphasizes the need for more investment in K-12 education to provide opportunities for children in rough neighborhoods to attend college or vocational training for free.
2:34:37 - 2:40:02 (05:25)
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The speaker emphasizes the need for more investment in K-12 education to provide opportunities for children in rough neighborhoods to attend college or vocational training for free. They also underlined the importance of balancing investments to avoid privileging one sector of the labor market over another.
ChapterEducation Cannot Solve Everything
Episode#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The tradeoff for the hypothetical increase in taxes for lower- and middle-class citizens to support socialist programs, such as free college, Medicare for All, and social security, would still benefit them, as they are the ones who would consume more of these services.
2:40:02 - 2:44:05 (04:02)
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The tradeoff for the hypothetical increase in taxes for lower- and middle-class citizens to support socialist programs, such as free college, Medicare for All, and social security, would still benefit them, as they are the ones who would consume more of these services. However, the cost of these programs, estimated to be around $40 trillion over 10 years, and the increasing costs of providers and pharmaceuticals may make it difficult to implement them, raising questions about their viability.