...why is the Crown not just offering to pay for skill-mastery outcomes?  Do they, like, not have any adversarially resistant way of measuring whether learning has occurred, and yet Governance does think they have some adversarially resistant way of measuring labor inputs to education where those inputs inevitably produce learning, such that they can pay people to do things but not pay for the measured results of things at all?  Somehow Keltham doubts that this is the case!  In fact he doubts that anybody in Governance even thought about it in those terms!  Somebody get a seventh-circle priest of Abadar in here!

It's still a good book, though.  Is it for sale, or borrowable?

...why is the Crown not just offering to pay for skill-mastery outcomes and letting anybody who wants to try their hand at producing those?  Does Governance, like, not have any adversarially resistant way of measuring whether learning has occurred, such that if they offered to pay for learning somebody would inevitably teach to the test without producing real human capital; and yet Governance does think they have some adversarially resistant way of measuring process inputs to education, where those inputs inevitably produce learning, such that they can pay people to do things but not pay for the measured results of things at all?

Somehow Keltham doubts that this is the case!  In fact he doubts that anybody in Governance even thought about it in those terms!  Somebody get a seventh-circle priest of Abadar in here!

It's still a good book, though.  Is it for sale, or borrowable?

...why is the Crown not just offering to pay for skill-mastery outcomes and letting anybody who wants to try their hand at producing those?  Does Governance, like, not have any adversarially resistant way of measuring whether learning has occurred, such that if they offered to pay for learning somebody would inevitably teach to the test without producing real human capital; and yet Governance does think they have some adversarially resistant way of measuring process inputs to education, where those inputs inevitably produce learning, such that they can pay people to teach but not pay for learning at all?

Somehow Keltham doubts that this is the case!  In fact he doubts that anybody in Governance even thought about it in those terms!  Somebody get a seventh-circle priest of Abadar in here!  'Never pay for the input when you can pay for the output, and if you can't robustly measure outputs you probably can't robustly measure inputs either,' goes the saying out of dath ilan.

It's still a good book, though.  Is it for sale, or borrowable?