I’m not in your target user, but I love the “day pass, no recurring billing” concept and specifically applied the second half of that. (Without that, it’s shady.)

I can imagine many tools that I’d use under such a model, and while I suspect A/B testing would show it to be a loser, I’d be fine with that instead of a free trial for most things.

For a tool like yours that brings immediate value but maybe less on-going usage, it’s more prone to be good for both sides.

Exactly. I noticed that usage for the paid offerings tended to be sporadic for individuals. Research confirmed that Private Investigators and Law Enforcement operate on a case-by-case basis, so a monthly subscription model didn't align with their workflow. However, they still require capabilities beyond what the free tier (cylect.io) offers. For larger clients (like Security Operation Centers and MSSPs) that's where I see monthly working well.

It can be simultaneously true that 5% of educators are great, 20% very good, 60% are good, 13% are adequate, and 2% should have fired 5 years or more ago.

If you’re in the first three groups, it can be hard to understand the disrespect and vitriol which is overwhelmingly directed at experiences parents have with that last group.

Prestigious boarding schools - the schools that I’ve been writing about - need not bother with teachers outside that top 25%.

Non-selective government schools, like all public services, have inevitably become largely concerned with social work; teachers in those schools, regardless of their ability, have to respond to parents immediately.

> teachers in those schools, regardless of their ability, have to respond to parents immediately.

Or else what? Their union will hold them to account? Their colleagues? Their administration?

I have two kids in such public schools and I can’t think of anything I’d ask of a teacher that would require a same-day response let alone an immediate one.

If I need an immediate response, it’s not likely a topic I should be taking to a teacher in the first place. Their job is to teach, not to monitor for inbound comms from parents.

By 'immediate', I meant same day. But you sound like a reasonable parent; you're writing in the hypothetical. It's the small minority of parents who are constantly in contact with teachers (because most legitimate concerns should be triaged by the school receptionist) and consequently cause the problems - it's no different to any other customer-facing role.

> need not bother with teachers outside that top 25%.

To simply "not bother" with lower-quality teachers sounds like you find it easy, as an institution, to determine teachers' quality. That seems far from a solved problem, for teachers and indeed most employees in general. You can pick a particular metric, of course, but then people will try to game it, and in teaching, there seems to be a lot of room for gaming metrics...

Yes nothing bad has never happened in a prestigious boarding school, just because they charge more money, especially to kids of rich people.

After all rich people and their rich kids never do anything wrong /s

I’m talking about institutions and their internal processes, not some tedious nonsense about how money is intrinsically evil.

Rich people have all sorts of problems. Part of the package in an elite education is that the school has a better capacity to sort those out by itself. Constant communication with parents undermines that.

It’s a question of values and understanding what you’re buying into. These schools don’t suit all parenting styles.

IMO, government owned basic dormitories with high density should exist. Think of something one or two steps above emergency shelters. Call them pods if you like.

Rent and utilities could be positioned at a level that permitted people to survive and have a foundation from which to lift themselves back up and perhaps eventually to a private housing situation with some luxury.

I feel like a lot of politicians get exposed making these “accidents” that just fortunately happen to be beneficial to them.

Perhaps they ought to be more careful when filling out paperwork. Or perhaps they’re not accidents.

I live in Massachusetts. Maybe I’d like to move to Palo Alto or Malibu. I hear they’re lovely.

To what extent, and by what mechanism, should the government of those two areas weight my preferences on housing policies in those areas? (I think it is properly exactly zero, even I say really, really want to.)

If you have 97 flights landing at airport with 1-3 pax each and 3 full jumbo jets and you survey passengers leaving the airport, the average person surveyed will report that their flight was packed.

Exclusive does not mean unrestricted.

Over the term of the lease agreement, rent is contractually predictable.

Which is rarely longer than a year, and many people go month-to-month, if they even have a contract.

I don’t understand the last sentence in your second paragraph. If “people [think] that real estate goes up forever” why does that trigger them to sell?

In general a roof repair (including a full replacement) won’t trigger a re-assessment but a kitchen remodel will.

A roof replacement isn’t really an improvement so much as expensive maintenance.

Imagine actually telling the government that you remodeled your kitchen. Nobody is that dumb, right?

Some people think the primary purpose of building permits and inspections is to ensure quality work. Others disagree.