We don’t pay teachers enough, our schools suffer, and we lose respect for public schools. We don’t pay government scientists and researchers enough (and we don’t listen to the ones we do hire), and the best and the brightest go instead to Google or Amazon. Then we ask the DOJ and the FTC to restrain these corporate titans, but we tie their hands, allocating a fraction of the resources private companies deploy. Amazon has more full-time lobbyists in DC than there are sitting U.S. senators.
