Throwing money at an already failing system isn't going to do anything. Look at how his donation to New Jersey played out. He's just putting money into a dying system. The entire educational system needs to be reworked completely. And the changes we need won't be made by politicians, we need hackers to do it.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120M to needy Bay Area schools
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120M to needy Bay Area schools
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You can't blame Europe for America's Red Scare. That's wholly their own choice. And "socialism" ala Western Europe is totally different to communism ala the Soviet Union, so when Americans conflate the two that is their own choice, also. (And why would Western Europe be setting a bad example with their 'socialism', anyway?) America had it relatively swell after WWII. Things went so well for so long that they thought…
I've once gave a lecture about one aspect of Hegels philosophy of law (inside his political philosophy). Hegel died in 1830. No matter how do you evaluate Hegels work, his ideals etc., it is absolutely stunning to see on which level he and others discussed this matter. And the "others" where especially important, because the role of the state and a nation where discussed not only in the ivory tower but also in broade…
I see. You have a different conceptualization of what blame/fault means than me.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120M to needy Bay Area schools
#73From a Scandinavian point of view this seems like such a detour. Why wait for billionaires to be so kind of fund schools when you could tax wealth and fund public and universal education? Why do the American people chose this way time after time?
Why such a huge accent put on taxing wealthy people? Large portion of tax already goes into public education. Money is never enough, thus someone donating more money to education never hurts. But I fail to see connection between 'if we need more money, tax all those wealthy citizens'.
If you have a tax %, the wealthiest will automatically give more money but it will still be proportionally.
Also, not having too rich and too poor people is a goal in itself - to move wealth from rich to poor creates a society where everyone is equal. Equal people are more happy and peaceful, and that is what it's all about.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120M to needy Bay Area schools
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Sigh. Did you spend one nanosecond of time doing any research before firing off your oh so pious comment about sparing a few pennies to save the children? A very quick google found me ed.gov, which is the US Department of Education. Here is an exact quote [1]: ED currently administers a budget of $67.3 billion in discretionary appropriations (including discretionary Pell Grant funding) and operates programs that touc…
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.
Sorry.
I did read your admonition a few days ago, and I should have apologized then.
I will be much more careful with the tone of my postings going forward.