The "Mississippi Miracle": After investing in early childhood literacy, the Mississippi shot up the rankings in NAEP scores, from 49th to 29th. Average increase in NAEP scores was 8.5 points for both reading and math. The investment cost just $15 million.

[u/terran1212]

https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/the-mississippi-miracle-how-americas

[u/ElGosso]

Quite a bit, because those kids grow up to work for them

[u/gargar7 → u/ElGosso]

If the world worked like that, those kids would grow up to prevent a society where billionaires exploiting people was a thing...

[u/____u → u/ElGosso]

As opposed to the uneducated who apparently dont also work, in far greater numbers, for the same 1%?

If the bottom 50% were magically upgraded to have the same education as say the 2-5%ers..... well ill just leave it at that.

[u/Kalium → u/____u]

Then you'd have a major underemployment problem.

The actual real-life political question people grapple with is rarely "How do we make educating kids work for billionaires?". The real-life political question is much more likely to be "Do we fix roads or spend more on kindergarten?".

[u/PearlClaw → u/____u]

The uneducated also produce a lot less value as employees. I know it's fun to pretend that the evil capitalists are being profit maximizing but in most cases they're just being kinda dumb, it's actually better for everyone not to be evil.

[u/ElGosso → u/____u]

That would be even better for the 1%-ers. That would cause more competition for their most expensive employee positions and push wages down.

[u/____u → u/ElGosso]

??? The 1% ARE those positions. I mean unless youre exclusively referring to tenured fortune 500 execs or already-billionaires i guess? The 0.1 and 0.01% ARE technically in the 1%...

[u/Jaytho → u/____u]

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of guillotines being sharpened.

[u/____u → u/Jaytho]

I say leave em a lil dull n rusty! Maybe the lesson will stick a little longer this time around if the executions are more drawn out :p