(January 6, 2010 at 5:10 pm)Meatball Wrote: I think in general, the government should be enforcing things like accountability and transparency to prevent fraud on the small and large scale. Once we have mechanisms to 'keep everybody honest' I think the free market would regulate itself, in nearly all industries, wonderfully.
The government is actually promoting the interests of profit in education which has been sucked in and is spewing out ever narrowing standards.
I think what Rabbit is getting at is that a widely imposed sensible system is better in every way than individual choice.
We just need to find a way to keep the capitalist assholes out of the equation.