Just because 'you' don't use a program doesn't mean you don't get an advantage from it, state education, day care etc is not designed to help the individual, as a society we all benefit from a healthy well educated population.
I'm no huge fan of Maoist communism but there is no doubt that universal education provided by the state has provided the country with a pool of well educated talent that has allowed the country to take off, Pakistan and Bangladesh on the other hand have no chance, so their start ups, if you can call them that, are limited to sweat shops where the illiterate can make t shirts.
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