Silicone velley tech jobs vs plumbers and electricians. A healthy country needs both.

Primal accounts? Do you mean nostr accounts? Primal doesn't have accounts.

Don't get me started on democracy. What's failed this nation is allowing anyone and everyone to vote.

Blue collar is far more productive than white collar. So I disagree with your last point. We need a balanced society. I do agree everyone should fund education. I just don't believe it should be mandatory. The government is wildly inefficient. So they've mismanaged education like everything else they try to do to "help" People that run high level companies will invest in education as they need highly educated workers to employ.

Correction for you: Roughly 90% of K-12 students in the United States attend public schools, while about 10% are enrolled in private schools. In higher education, the public-to-private ratio changes significantly compared to K-12: 73.2% of US college students attend public institutions, while 26.8% attend private institutions Public education has massively failed. Americans are retarded. This is the primary reason.

Who will build the roads?

Go touch it!

A child born to a poor family can have access to high education. Nothing about his wealth status has anything to do with his merit. But a poor person that's not smart should not be entitled to high education. It's a waste of resources. Yes I believe we should live in a merit based society. Rich dumb kids should go to school wherever they want and be graded according to their output and poor kids can go to a bad school, do well and pursue higher education. That shouldn't be blocked by money and I don't think it would. This is precisely the reason for grants and scholarships. Also sport scholarships are completely antithetical to education. A guy should get a great education because he can shoot hoops good.

Education is not a right. You are not entitled to it. The same way you are not entitled to healthcare. It requires labor of someone else. If you're going to make the argument that it's for the common good of society then keeping people alive is more justifiable than keeping people from being dumb. I don't believe in taxes for ANYTHING but the express role of the government. National Defense. The private sector is better at healthcare and education than the government could ever dream to deliver. Why would privatizing all of education lead to an unequal landscape intelligence based on how much money you have? With public education we're all just more dumb.

You are connected to all of yours plus all of any relay in the list of anyone else on your relays. You only read/write to the ones in your list plus you may write to others list. Like if you leave a comment on a note it should post to their relays and yours. But if you pay for a good relay or run your own you can expect less spam (reading) from relays that block spam. If you want something for you kid to use, I would run your own and lock it down and set that relay to the only relay in the list. Basically he'll be in a web of trust of only people you let him follow. Something like that.