I'm now interested in a list of transactions ordered by participant dissatisfaction, like, paying for gym memberships and not getting the outcomes they want, therapy or medical attention to mostly be ignored by the provider, ISPs in the US, online shopping to get something wildly different.
Is education especially bad compared to these things? or just that it's such a large expenditure we just-world-fallacy ourselves into thinking it ought to work better?
Is it really a logical fallacy to assume that we should have better outcomes from spending tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars on academia vs e.g. spending thirty dollars on amazon?
At least naively, that money could (should?) be going towards paying for staff and a support system/hierarchy to ensure a higher quality. That's at least nominally why accredited, non-profit education is so expensive, because it's nominally supposed to be capable of paying decent salaries to intelligent people dedicated to teaching, compared to say amazon or the gym where the incentives are to cost cut and maximize profit.
In reality, I suspect the same applies to colleges, but I don't think it should, in some ideal world.
Is education especially bad compared to these things? or just that it's such a large expenditure we just-world-fallacy ourselves into thinking it ought to work better?