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Post by istjohn »

whelp_24 wrote: post #75
tivert wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> From regulatory capture through revolving doors and lobbying, to media capture through purchase, and now academic capture through donation, it seems no activity is safe from large concentrations of wealth. > And it never will be. This is a human problem. No amount of laws and regulations will ever solve it. Come on. Wealth is literally a creature of "law and regulations," and changes to them can definitely "solve…

We shouldn't sit on our hands or whatever but wealth isn't a creation of laws, it's a bit of the inverse. Some laws can remove wealth and some laws are gonna take a lotta of guns and manpower (resources ==wealth) to implement.

Without laws, you have anarchy. Laws create the institutions necessary to have an economy capable of creating wealth.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

johnchristopher wrote: post #53
intrasight wrote: post #13

I just read that this morning. I'm interested enough in the outcome that I put a calendar reminder 6 months out to check what happened. Doing so made me wonder if there's a service that would email me updates about legal cases like this that I would like to follow.

There are services that monitors changes on webpages so you could plug the "official" page where legal/official information about that case lives and wait for a change, maybe it would even work with a search engine results page.

Might be a good addition to archive.org, since they will index and re-index pages from time to time anyway and detect changes.

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Post by hinkley »

KRAKRISMOTT wrote: post #61
micromacrofoot wrote: post #15

the age old unspoken donation "coincidence" this is how many rich people get their kids into Harvard too, the only reason parents got caught up in the varsity blues scandal was that they were too explicit... old money donates the new library and "hopes" for the best

> this is how many rich people get their kids into Harvard too That's the entire point and feature of these elite institutions (more specifically, their undergraduate division and business schools), to connect wealth with brilliant people. They are the traditional social institutions of innovation and entrepreneurship before incubators like YC were a thing. If you remove the wealth aspects, then the Ivies are no diff…

They’re worse.

Aside from their football programs, none of these other schools have gotten as comfortable with looking the other way for The Greater Good.

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Post by droopyEyelids »

bentt wrote: post #54

It's fascinating how we've come to this, where we've let our society be influenced so profoundly by social media platforms and the men who run them. It's bad and I hope we can eventually diffuse the power that's been concentrated in their hands. But they're not the same, these men. Only one of them really scares me. What scares me about Zuck is observable in his public behavior. He knows EXACTLY what he's doing and s…

I agree with the sentiment, but don't think "let our society come to this" is the right framing.

This is how the USA has always been run, except in the past the billionaire class created the whole university to shape society. Like JD Rockefeller and the University of Chicago, which continues to have a profound political influence on the entire field of Economics.

It's absolutely pernicious and we normal people do need to fight it every way we can.

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Post by kelipso »

KRAKRISMOTT wrote: post #61
micromacrofoot wrote: post #15

the age old unspoken donation "coincidence" this is how many rich people get their kids into Harvard too, the only reason parents got caught up in the varsity blues scandal was that they were too explicit... old money donates the new library and "hopes" for the best

> this is how many rich people get their kids into Harvard too That's the entire point and feature of these elite institutions (more specifically, their undergraduate division and business schools), to connect wealth with brilliant people. They are the traditional social institutions of innovation and entrepreneurship before incubators like YC were a thing. If you remove the wealth aspects, then the Ivies are no diff…

It's a great way to further entrench the influence of the rich into public life.

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Post by yoyohello13 »

jwestbury wrote: post #74
downrightmike wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Universities have been dirty since they embraced price gouging on tuition in the 90's. There is no way what they are providing can be considered fair or reasonable.

> since they embraced price gouging on tuition in the 90's. (Caveat that the following is US-centric.) I'd love to see the data showing actual price gouging, because the data I've seen has generally suggested that per-student spending hasn't even increased at a pace equivalent to inflation; rather, funding didn't increase with enrolment, leading to students paying for an ever-higher share of their education. (As for…

I used to work in Institutional Research at a state university and at least for state school's tuition tracks pretty closely to the cost of education. In my time working there, our funding from the state was reduced by 30%.

Generally Non-resident tuition is the cost it takes to educate a student. Resident tuition is cheaper because it's subsidized by the state. Every year we would get less and less funding from the state and would have to shift more burden to the student. We implemented furlough days, and cut admin staff compensation to attempt to reduce the tuition burden on students. We still had to raise Tuition faster than inflation in the end.

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Post by istjohn »

LewisVerstappen wrote: post #86
pwillia7 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about better redistributing wealth -- you know like corn subsidies

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What were the disastrous consequences of the 91% income tax rate on the top bracket in the 1950's?

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Post by yieldcrv »

j45 wrote: post #80

Colleges and universities are like little countries, rarely answer to anyone and focused on their own insular practices.

A lot of people are looking for an all controlling force in the country or world

instead, I see a lot of demigods that rule their domain, curating complete autonomy as long as they stay within the confines they finessed

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