It's interesting and also sad that students of color were funneled into vocational paths. The limited options included CUNY in New York and its paths, which became more promoted after the Civil Rights movement, where minority enrollment is a majority. I'm surprised that New York City was so involved in segregation, and it explains a lot of the disparities in the NYC school system today better.

If society becomes less and less communal does that mean neoliberal goals are inherently narcissistic. The wording here is interesting. Neoliberalism also begets gentrification, as selfishness is rewarded.

To implement neoliberalist values, and because of individualism, CUNY becomes defunded and public education lowers in quality. Social justice decreases and inequality increases, and the issues of first introducing tuition continues to this day.

One could argue that the US uses this to institute economic imperialism and this motivation is itself a form of neoimperialism. To what extent do neoliberal states actually exhibit conventional standards of freedom?

This reminds me about how a lot of urban development was fueled by the highway lobby and how a lot of poor communities were torn down for the interstate system. It is an issue that persists in government culture.

Welfare in modern politics is used as a political weapon and as a talking point. It's interesting that New York had less welfare and less benefits yet people complained about welfare abuse. It's a result of classism in politics.