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I'm really glad to see this post. I think you hit most of the major points, and made most of the strong arguments in favor. Might I recommend you add a section rebutting arguments against? I have advocated for this to many of my friends, and I've heard:
I worked backwards from "no one in the educational system is directly incentivized to help children grow up into happy, productive adults" and derived that financing exactly like this was the ideal path to building a system that actually works. I'm really glad to see other people thinking these thoughts, and I would love to figure out how to make this a reality.
Hmm, an interesting combination of arguments!
I'll have to think about rebuttals. My concern is that by explicitly mentioning arguments that I think are silly we give them a certain level of credence. In some cases I've tried to indirectly address them, but maybe I should put more work into that. Alternatively I could write a separate 'Common Objections' article.
Awesome! I don't have much in the way of practical ideas here, beyond talking about it, writing about it, and posting links in high-readership locations.