> this can work but loses a lot of economies of scale involved in education
You just finished arguing that schools need to be scaled down.
Schools are failing because they've abstracted childrearing away from communities and parents who actually have their best interests at heart, rather than using them as a chess piece to squeeze the maximum amount of funding out of taxpayers.
> congratulations you just reinvented the school
Schools and technical institutes have a certain amount of use for teaching specialised skills the average parent doesn't know. But they should be specific to their purpose and cater to children with skills and interests in that field. Not try (and fail) to be "for everyone."
There's a precedent for that in shipping registries. Functionally that's how they work. Also the tribal law system in somalia works something like that.
The worst sin of modern prison systems is that they make so many convicts deliberately useless and idle, while punishing the innocent by requiring us to work for their upkeep.
> Building great universities to raise up the best and brightest as patriotic public servants
> Paying top public servants as well as corporations pay their executives
Tbh that sounds like any 60s socialist worker's paradise. The result tends to be a class of highly accredited nomenklatura who look out for themselves and fuck everyone else.
Same thing happening in the west with all the lefty degree mills. They're creating a whole class of people who's only opportunity for success comes from political loyalty.
> Sneaky rich people are looking for ways to take advantage of your government all of the time.
This right here is the key problem. Centralised governments are fundamentally highly vulnerable to takeover by merchant elites (mostly but not always kikes). It's been happening for millenia, no amount of "this time it'll be different" will change it.
I've given a lot of thought to prison too. The conclusion I came to is that it's evolved more through accident than design and it's completely disfunctional.
Historically prisons were only ever used for people awaiting trial or politically sensitive persons who couldn't be killed or allowed freedom. The idea of using it as a means of punishment evolved from there, and the idea of reform was an afterthought.
I'd abolish the concept of prison as punishment, it should only exist as a security measure. Punishment should come in the form of compensation, basically returning to a wergild type system. Judges should also impose security restrictions to protect the community, but it should be up to the convict to fund and organise them. Less a case of sending them to prison and more a case of telling them they have X days to find a prison willing to take them or they'll be exiled.
Lots of things will always exist to some extent. Rape and murder will always exist, burglery will always exist, corruption will always exist. Just because some sins will always be out there doesn't mean they have to be accepted or embraced rather than fought. Especially when there are alternatives.
He abandoned his original family and married another woman, then tried to have another kid way way way too late in life for both of them.
It's not terribly surprising chris ended up a bit potato-like. Although the hopes he had for him are desperately sad in context of what actually happened.
Once chris-chan was conceived I don't think there was anything he could do to salvage the situation.