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I would support tax paid free education for a persons entire life until the day they die, over tax paid universal healthcare anyday.
The world is overcrowded anyway, last thing we need is healthcare making it more crowded. Smart people on the other hand, those are a rare commodity, we need as many of them as we can get.
@freemo
I think it goes hand in hand. I would for sure not be alive without healthcare, wouldn't do tech and would not educate the next generation.
Sidenote: Do not worry about an overcrowded world: Thanks to education the problem is solved. People are not having more children any more. The only growth is for people getting older, but that part is limited.
@phil_s If you werent alive to do tech or teach the next generation there would be other people around who did survive and could still fullfill that need. More over, and better yet, there would be fewer people in the next generation so less of a need for educators in the first place.
Now to be fair I was half joking in my response. Yes education is more important than healthcare to me. And no I dont want to just kill everyone off by not providing healthcare (I have actual solutions for healthcare I wont go into but it doesnt resemble universal healthcare). But that said my logic that education is more important because maintaining a too-large population isnt much of a plus anyway.
@phil_s not exactly. population is defined by how many children they have **that live to child bearing age**.. so without healthcare more people die off before they can even have kids.
@freemo
No worry 🙂
Just on the topic: Overpopulation is not determined so much by how long people survive, but rather how many children are there. And that point is over, as most of the world's population is out of deepest poverty by now. (My favourite book on this is "Factfulness" by a Swedish doctor called Hans Rosling.)
Yes, population is still increasing a little because of health care, but in the end the topic is solved. All of this is only possible because of education.