If you were begging the question any harder, you&#x27;d be one of the people tech guys hate on in the Tenderloin. And at the same time you&#x27;re teetering on the edge of an epiphany that strikes at the heart of techno-fetishistic free-market worship. Because the government guaranteeing loans and grants isn&#x27;t a good way to provide education, no--but <i>plenty of countries</i> make education a state function and charge a very manageable amount, if anything at all, to students, while making the total cost of operation remarkably reasonable.