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Originally Posted by Traum
Healthcare -- game, set, and match.
The problem with your approach is, you're turning kids into one trick ponies, and that is superbly problematic. If that trick you taught the kid doesn't pan out for one reason or another, then the kid becomes totally screwed. Case in point -- what if a kid gets sent to this engineering school because he was good at math, but then it turned out that he hates match / applied science?
And then kids all growth, mature, and bloom in their own ways, and on their own time. If you don't even expose them to the different subjects, they wouldn't even have a chance to explore it. What if a kid was supposed to be a late bloomer in arts and music, but he didn't show that talent when he was a young child? And because you sent him to trade school instead of music school since he was good with crafts, the world would have lost this arts and music prospect. And then if it turned out that the kid was only mediocre in trades, then again, the kid is fxxked.
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I'm just spitballing examples of things that can happen. Maybe everyone realizes that specification as a kid is risky and decides to send their kid to a general school where they're taught language, logic, match, I don't know, I don't have the answers and that's the beauty of it. Everyone will have what they think will work and then they have to put it into practice and if it works then it works. The best schools will stay afloat. We'll be able to see which skills and subjects are useful and which are not.
And re: healthcare, it's far cheaper right now, that's undeniable, but the long-term effects on Canada are going to hurt unless there are radical changes. It's not sustainable at all. It's going to lead to higer taxes, an increase in MSP, and an increase in debt for the entire country. It has to because the financial burden is insanely high and it's getting worse.
We are already starting to see the cracks in the walls with things like people being unable to find a family doctor and this is because because you can't regulate entire industries.
However, you might be right and healthcare might somehow be better under a government though. Good point.