The free market can't solve the challenge of education in the 21st century. Market-based education means that poor neighborhoods will get worse schools. That exacerbates inequality.

Inequality does affect you. If talented kids get trapped in bad zip codes, bad schools, etc., the economy loses countless potential innovators and leaders. Instead they become criminals and cost society through policing, incarceration, broken families, productivity loss, etc.

We need to fix public education because we need a system that cultivates talent regardless of zip code.