Your anecdote doesn’t really mean much. “Significantly way better” is apparently still not enough.
Similar to why food stamps are cheaper than food education. The administrative burden is prohibitively expensive.
Let’s not consider the thesis at hand here; jobs aren’t the answer. That flies in the face of our corporate sponsored religion.
Of course believing that inherently threatens your status.
This site should best stick to discussion of technology. Whenever social topics come along, the community quickly reveals its ignorance of reality for the majority, and knee jerk defense of its status quo
Maybe take some money out of military spending? Educate the population, the economy soars, and then you can re-increase the military budget 30 years down the line.