 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
As regards our third class of goods - namely, those in which one man’s possession does not interfere, of necessity, with that of another - there ought to be no problem of distribution, but, in fact, there is. The sort of goods that I am thinking of have a very wide range, from a child’s joy in living to the most refined mental delights in the creation or enjoyment of works of genius.... All the good things that depend upon higher education are, at present, the prerogative of a minority; and so are those that depend upon considerable leisure. In such ways there is, at present, competition which is not essentially necessary, but the remedy lies in politics rather than in ethics
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 11：
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* a brief comment (Translated with DeepL.com)
This is why we need free education, including free higher education. By chanting the mantra of "protecting the lives of the people", budgets that many of the people need are being cut.
Backroom money and other corrupt legislators also seem to think (or try to make the public think) that as long as they advocate the China threat and the strengthening of defence forces, they will be supported as patriotic.