David Shemano wrote: > I see consequences, and I look for rules and incentives to see the causation. > You, on the other hand, look at the quality of individual people in > institutions (i.e., if we had better regulators, the consequences would be > different).<
I agree with David that incentives are important. For example, profit incentives push the for-profit schools to in effect buy government officials. The Education Department opened itself up to this by deciding that for-profit schools deserved to be encouraged, following free-market ideology. As long as we live in a capitalist society (and as long as there aren't countervailing forces such as a serious labor movement), we should expect to have corrupt government. Those with the most money will work hard to subvert democracy to pad their wealth even more. -- Jim Devine / "In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness." -- George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
