Property taxes—paying for fire, police, and emergency services that they will never use, plus some high-paying jobs taking care of it.. For poor counties these are giant revenue sources.
I'm not sure what needs to be done, but the way things are in the schools right now isn't working. Maybe some sort of hybrid AI/teacher system; smarter minds than mine really need to address the problems.
tell you what you want to hear. mostly. I tell it to not parrot me and quit being a yes man all the time. Then it just makes up whatever it wants and tries to pass it off as fact- I believe they call it hallucinating, and they all do it.....
AI fabricates about 30-50% of its answers. I guess that would make a great therapist. I am actually shocked how often AI spits out BS as facts, it is an eye-opener.
I worked at a University- it was the same. Almost all jobs were filled from within or by someone , somebody knew. And once you were in, virtually impossible to get you back out.