Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free
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Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free
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Re: Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free
#2That's a lot of money for something that ostensibly already exists. This terribly busy website has a bit better content as to why they are doing this: http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_29007119/faceboo...
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#3http://www.theprimaryschool.org/ Didn't see a link in the article.
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#4Speaking of Facebook, does anyone know if this is true?
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#5That's great for the community, but in a larger sense we should question what the point is of amassing huge concentrated wealth and then giving a small part (or even a large part) back to make isolated positive impacts. Wouldn't it be better if it was impossible to amass that concentration of wealth in the first place? Then the token donations would not be necessary. This is not supposed to be a cynical post, but this pattern is indicative of a general problem with the system.
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Re: Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free
#7That's great for the community, but in a larger sense we should question what the point is of amassing huge concentrated wealth and then giving a small part (or even a large part) back to make isolated positive impacts. Wouldn't it be better if it was impossible to amass that concentration of wealth in the first place? Then the token donations would not be necessary. This is not supposed to be a cynical post, but thi…
I think there's a good argument to be made that personally accumulated wealth spent on experimental projects such as this one is used better than if it were taxed and added to the relatively enormous federal budget. DoD yearly spend is greater than 10x of Zuck's net worth, after all.
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#8So what model is this, I can't seem to tell exactly? Montessori, Sudbury, democratic, anarchistic free? Or just a traditional school with integrated daycare?
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#9If this works, can it be used as an example for better public schools? Even if it's more expensive, one can argue that the increased productivity of well educated kids outweighs the cost of their education.
Re: Zuckerbergs' New “Primary School”: Private but Free
#10That's great for the community, but in a larger sense we should question what the point is of amassing huge concentrated wealth and then giving a small part (or even a large part) back to make isolated positive impacts. Wouldn't it be better if it was impossible to amass that concentration of wealth in the first place? Then the token donations would not be necessary. This is not supposed to be a cynical post, but thi…
shifting the narrative is what's needed. When I hear people talk about "being rich" these days they aren't talking about owning luxury things but being out of debt with enough time away from work to pursuit other things and enough capital to support having a child.
The big problem is that being unslaved from obligatory wage is quickly being considered to be "rich".