[exmicrosoldier]

In capitalism, society gets what it rewards. If it wants more children it must pay the market price, just like everything else.

If it wants educated, productive children, it must also pay the market price and that price is exorbitant.

At some point, US tech companies will (maybe have already outspent) the US education system k-12 and at some point surpassing all the ivy colleges just for training some ai models.

[paxys]

The USA spends close to a trillion dollars annually on K-12 education, so you are only off by about 3 orders of magnitude.