This is completely normal and is not an indication of the complete unraveling of the country
plus a cost-saving measure to boot, since the total funding parents would receive through ESA vouchers is $4,000 less than Arizona’s already paltry per-pupil funding for public schools
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I mean, the fundamental underlying premise here is that the pursuit of monetary profit for it’s own sake, and the achievement of it, necessarily means that you are doing the most functional good. It’s the intended & necessary end-point of Marginalist Economics, which all forms of contemporary, institutionally respected Economics are in one way or another. Social utility or “The Good” can only ever be defined abstractly/numerically, because people are all individuals with specific & particular preferences & desires. Because people all have specific & particular preferences, only they can know what’s best for them & so they must be allowed to act autonomously in the pursuit of their interests, and free markets are what best facilitates that. Thus operating profitably in the market means that you are necessarily achieving the greatest material social good.
This is all obvious bullshit if you actually look at the material outcomes of market societies, but it’s convincing enough (and flattering enough to their sensibilities) to people of a liberal mindset to not raise objection most of the time, and those who lack one know that it’s in their material interest to maintain the facade.
