You couldn’t be more wrong. Without unions, the money would go to “capitalists” who “own” the system.
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Ok – are they not capitalists? Do they not own the system? What are the quotes for? I have to say I thought this was a post by bearishgurl. If you are not quoting someone you don’t need quotes. Rant over.[/quote]
Wrong.
“When do you use double quotation marks?
Use double quotation marks
Observe the following guidelines for uses of double quotation marks other than in material quoted directly from a source.
to introduce a word or phrase used as an ironic comment, as slang, or as an invented or coined expression. Use quotation marks the first time the word or phrase is used; thereafter, do not use quotation marks.
Examples:
considered “normal” behaviorthe “good-outcome” variable…the good-outcome variable [no quotation marks after the initial usage]”
As for why I put quotation marks around “capitalists,” it’s because too many people think that capitalists are people who own their own companies and *work* for a living. What too many people don’t realize is that capitalists can often be people who don’t do any work at all, but simply make money with money (capital). IMHO, the capitalists who work for a living, fund new companies/innovations, or who use their money to increase productive capacity or increase efficiency are true capitalists.
Those who try to get in front of market moves, or who control enough volume to change market direction/volatility and take advantage of that, are speculators. Those who try to take control of markets or distribution channels in order to force people to use whatever it is they are selling/controlling are also speculators, IMHO. These are what I would call destructive or bad speculators.
Many of the “capitalists” in private education are not workers, have no knowledge about education, have never worked in a classroom, etc. They are “investors” (and I use quotation marks there because too many people don’t know the difference between investors and speculators) who are simply looking to make a profit by *taking away choice* and forcing everyone to use a private system. As it stands right now, everyone is free to choose between a public school, publicly-funded private school, private school, or homeschool. The privatization movement is trying to shrink the number of choices available to parents and students by taking away the public options (where the workers are government employees).
For some background on the privatization of public assets and services, see this thread:
