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Balrog0 posted...

well I meant more like there's a lot of capacity wasted on unproductive teaching but Im not sure what productive teaching looks like or how we would measure it and that sort of thing since the targeted consumers really aren't the ones choosing it. my assumption is that children would have a lot more personal freedoms in a communist utopia than they currently have so it would be an interesting thing to plan

Joel has also repeatedly asserted that my presumption that he supports communism is "making stuff up about his politics" so I guess it also depends on what his politics are.

But yea, productivity is a factor of need I'd say. Teaching is productive unless there's a massive food shortage and society desperately needs more farmers, at which point the definition of productive changes drastically. The issue is that historically these societies have become so fundamentally destitute that anything other than producing food is basically a path towards mass starvation, which IIRC Joel would blame on capitalist intervention because said societies are completely non self-sustaining and so when other nations back out of trade they collapse under, ironically, their own inability to produce.
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