There is another problem regardless of how good education you get chances are you'll become a wage slave. The harder you work, the increasingly more tax you have to pay, so making effort does not pay these days. Then you have things like illegal drug market teasing the youth, as the margins are high and tax free. I thing just making the schools better will not have much effect, because young people have no motivation to do better as they'll have mediocre lives regardless of how much effort they put in education as the system is designed for the poor to stay poor.
I can tell you first hand that "the youth" aren't thinking about margins and taxes when they are deciding between taking a job and joining the illegal drug market. They're thinking about how long it takes to earn a dollar.
Yes, they don't think about it directly, but this is what is responsible for how long they need to work to make a dollar. I thought that is obvious... Essentially in the legal market, the more you work, the less you get thanks to progressive tax.
The taxation scheme makes virtually 0 difference. No one working as a software engineer is thinking, man this progressive tax is too high, time to quit facebook and sell crack. People working min wage are paying way less tax under a progressive taxation scheme. I really don't understand this thinking.
