Individual liberty is a core aspect of any successful governmental system, but so is taking care of the most vulnerable and creating a baseline of services available to all.

Trust me, I've read a lot of history on the Soviet Union and the communist movements. I'm being mostly facetious about this, but it's impossible not to look at our current system and wonder if there is a better way to do all this. I'm not advocating for Soviet style communism in the least though. That shit don't work.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

Yeah, but Ollie North hasn't changed. He's a warhawk shill and the guy who got a pardon from Reagan.

It's very good! And very depressing!

I never said he didn't, although rich people donating is often a way to hide taxes and other dodgy financial schemes. I'm just weary of anybody who (ESPECIALLY Elon Musk) who makes big pronouncements and then just kinda wanders off. He's richer than any of us will be in a 1000 lifetimes, so I have zero sympathy for him or any obscenely rich person on money issues.

That's not even the Bechdel Test, it's the first criteria of the Bechdel Test.

That's assuming that tuition and rates have risen only to keep up with demand, and that colleges and universities haven't found ways to squeeze every last dollar out of the student. There are more schools, more classes, and more options now than there has ever been, and yet the costs will continue to rise. Instructor pay is down, tuition rates are up, and enrollments are up; the only logic in this is that higher education institutions now operate on a profit model instead of the non-profit model that got us through before.

You're purposefully picking examples that won't happen to highlight what you believe would be the most extreme cases, but this isn't some slippery slope thing. People joke about how MLK will be portrayed by a white woman now and hide behind "being true to the source material" when in reality they're just afraid that their traditionally white fictional stories will be sullied by people of color.