take the public schools. the whole point of the public school movement, if you go back to its founding, was not only tç provide everyone with an education, it was to bring people together in a common space that would cultivate a shared, democratic citizenship. if we disinvest in the civic infrastructure of public life, we create a way for the affluent to leigh public life. those are not only unfair for those left with shoddy surfaces, it's also a -- and the 1% in this actually ends up feeling more alien ated. and you have a resentment for those who live in the skyboxes as opposed to a forced