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I'm not sure it needs to work beyond getting people prepared enough to consume advertising.

As long as you can import talent and expand the public funding of private education there's little incentive in America to improve public education.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/betsy-devos-a...

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Finland has no private education. The rich elite have to send their kids to the same public schools as everyone else.

The rationale is the rich elite will demand that the public school system will maintain education standards. And the converse that if the rich can send their kids to private schools why would they care about the standards of public schools?

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