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In reference to the idea that the benefits of education are primarily individual:
If you merely sit on your knowledge, smirking at the Complete Fucking Morons all around you, it does no one any good -- even you. Your career options are ranting while you pick up scrap metal with your shopping cart or maybe, i dunno, panhandling. On the positive side, the price for scrap metal is pretty good these days. Look for copper.
Like anything else in capitalist society, for you to cash in the value of your university-acquired knowledge, it has to be put on the market, has to be exchanged, has to be useful in some way to some one. Ace seems to be arguing, in effect, that there is some sort of market distortion which has the middle class ripping off society and receiving more than it contributes. Or maybe the assumptions of liberal economics are wrong. You tell me.
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