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My fam just walked in the door and I didn’t get to finish per our ‘economic system’ and big government:

Really your thoughts align with mine. I don’t usually state “less government needed” as a benefit of education, although I recognize it, because it’s just one of many I see.

IMO-Poverty breeds all crime, inequity, hate, oppression, etc... I believe that wholly. Because the poor are vulnerable in every way. If you give them an education, you arm ... them with a tool to fight vulnerability.

I believe in a capitalism, too, but I recognize it is based on competition. So we must accept that there will be winners and losers. Obviously, it behooves everyone and the idea of ‘competition in a free-market’ if those losers are they best, happiest, most-able-to-compete people that they can be. Imagine.

I really believe the only solution to poverty, of course, is education. We haven’t yet tried everything else yet but it seems that way to me.

Oh, and did I say I am sick of seeing class-warfare turned into ‘race-warfare?’

A Libertarian friend of mine recently said this: “It’s a perfect system, when the gears are greased properly - and if the people are the gears, then surely education is the grease that helps things run smoothly.”

That’s our common ground, anyway.