Damn, this just led me down a rabbit hole that made me discover that 48% of Australian high school kids go to private schools … What’s going on over there? It’s like 5-9% in the US and Canada.
See: Valve’s lost decade.
Valve overcharges everyone so much that they could actually afford to try this and let their workers work on whatever they wanted. The end result was a cluster fuck that produced basically nothing for a decade.
It didn’t matter, because, again, Valve rips the entire gaming industry off so badly that they were still wildly profitable, but it’s part of why we saw no sequels to any of their games.
Yes, this is why missile defense programs going all the way back to Regan’s “Star Wars” scheme have been controversial.
This was from world bank data:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.SEC.PRIV.ZS?end=2025&most_recent_value_desc=true&start=2025&view=bar