are you left,right or centre?

[Purple Rabbit]

In children care centers and elder care asses get wiped all the time by strangers and not only for-profit. And why should it be only for-profit? You're arguing from a POV that assumes abilities that some lack.

There are a lot of things that the government can do. That doesn't mean they should. Is it really the government's responsibility to level the playing field for everyone?

Did I say they should? If the free market can self-organize it, fine by me. We're talking about wiping ass, not leveling playing fields. It's about moral hygiene and taking responsibility beyond yourself.

But let's take another example. Have you observed how market parties standardized electric chargers for mobile phones so we didn't need all these variants lying around everywhere contributing to the waste problem? Me neither! Sometimes someone has to step in to organize things that market parties feel no urge to organize.

I'm not sure how this applies to education.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't. But some posts in this thread suggested to me the topic was not just on education but an the question if free market is all it takes. It's pretty easy to see however, at least in my country, how the unwillingness of private schools to comply to standardized minimum education levels harms society as a whole. Several schools in the Netherlands (mostly Muslim schools) are now on the black list. When the state doesn't intervene, these are the seeds of disruption in society.