> We underinvested in literally every job-creating public good from education to infrastructure
Absolutely true, and there are massive marginal gains to be had by increasing our investments in education and infrastructure at this moment, but it's important to acknowledge that in the limit of appropriately high funding, education does not guarantee the existence of satisfactory jobs for everyone.
It's entirely incidental to the subject at hand, but I disagree:
https://qz.com/1269172/the-epic-mistake-about-manufacturing-...
> We underinvested in literally every job-creating public good from education to infrastructure
Absolutely true, and there are massive marginal gains to be had by increasing our investments in education and infrastructure at this moment, but it's important to acknowledge that in the limit of appropriately high funding, education does not guarantee the existence of satisfactory jobs for everyone.