What's The Deal With Education?

Yes! This is a common point of view among American business people who have been out of college longer than they care to admit. It's not just something I came up with on my own. It's a relatively free market, compared to other alternatives.

A true free market in the purest sense probably doesn't exist anywhere, as Balbus said, so why do working business professionals need a term for it? We don't talk about things that aren't real.

 

This is obviously true.

It kind of reminds me of the time when they first started trying to sell the public on the concept of trickle down economics.

 

Thank you MeAgain, I thought I wasn’t explaining myself properly.

Karen

What I’m saying is if people like you say they support the ‘free market’ when they actually mean the regulated mixed economy it allows an in to the neo-liberal free marketeers who are actually are the enemies of the regulated mixed economy.

In politics words are important and some in politics will try and use words to bamboozle people – ‘free’ ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ are all words that are often used to bamboozle the unwary and should ring alarm bells whenever uttered as slogans in politics.

For example in the UK one of the ways the neo-liberal right is trying to break up the old education system and opening it to ‘market’ forces is by introducing so called ‘Free Schools’ of course they are not ‘free’ they are just outside the normal local education system and are directly responsible to the central government . The ‘free school’ model was based on a Swedish one that as stated above hasn’t worked out well, with a drop in performance levels and richer parents gaming the system to advantage their children, bringing about greater social inequality.

Some may lament how words get abused or their meaning twisted and changed but the problem is that happens and the only thing people who notice it happening can do is point it out and try and get people to understand that it is happening.

 

Oh yes old trickle down - the tide that was meant to lift all boats but ended up lifting only yachts

 

Another "enhanced honesty" GOP slogan: No banker left behind.