Great essay and work. Milton Friedman is the modern proponent of the whole con game. Here's some great work on him by Nancy McLean. He is heralded as the great economist of our day because he championed supply side economics. This school thing is part of that. Here goes a stunning piece on him: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/how-milton-friedman-aided-and-abetted-segregationists-in-his-quest-to-privatize-public-education