oh wait , temporary ? <| sep |> Slipstream , goalkeeper dark matter and white sunburst for heatwave <| sep |> The fact that you make somebody else pay for it , does not mean that it ' s already not a commodity . Education is a service , it bears expenses and it has a price . No amount of wishful thinking will change that fact , so the quicker people realize that we have to be efficient with our resources , the quicker we can look for the appropriate solutions . Are you not claiming that choice is a moral good ? That is entirely different from claims about efficiency one is normative and the other is descriptive , and they do not always coincide . So which one are you primarily concerned with ? It ' s better that Educorp shuts down , than for us to keep a zombie alive , which is simply not doing a good job at educating . Failure is acceptable , and the quicker it happens the quicker we can try to find a better solution to replace the failed one . If we don ' t let failures go their natural way , then we get the same thing as the public schools which have been failing for decades now ! There are two reasons why a school could fail it is failing to educate , and it is failing to be profitable . Private organizations are fundamentally only concerned with one of the two , and the idea that voting with one ' s dollars produces the best product is disproven by the success of a wide range of mediocre products . Water is a commodity , so is everything else we humans utilize in our daily lives . The fact that it is readily available is the result of understanding simple economics supply and demand . People will pay for water before they pay for anything else . And 3 days without water death . 40 days without food death . Now how many days can a person go without education before they die ? Well , arguably their entire life . So comparing water to education is so far disconnected from the basic reality of life , that it really blows my mind that somebody may not be able to make the distinction . We don ' t live in a state of nature we live within a network of institutions that have been built up for hundreds of years . This network absolutely separates us from Mad Max ' s world , a world in which possible death by dehydration must be included in one ' s daily deliberations , and allows us to all but eliminate economic thinking about water this may change in the coming decades . That , by the way , is my main problem with extreme forms of libertarianism or worse , anarchocapitalism it wants us all to act as if we live in a state of nature , in which survival needs must factor into daily deliberation . It makes society into one big protection racket , instead of letting us get on with the business of living fulfilling lives . This freedom from deliberating about survival needs should , can , and has been extended to other areas of life , one of which is childhood education . I ' d be happy if we have a system which allowed failing institutions to fail quickly , and we allowed parents to take their tax money somewhere else . The only time I would be OK with paying taxes for a public school is if the parent received a voucher and they chose to spend it at a pubic school . I ' d be happy if we have a system which allowed failing institutions to fail quickly , and we allowed parents to take their tax money somewhere else . The only time I would be OK with paying taxes for a public school is if the parent received a voucher and they chose to spend it at a pubic school . So you want education to be completely privatized ?