It’s a strong argument for all children being born in jail.
Nah, Freakonomics is a book that makes a good argument for needing to obtain a permit to be allowed to publish a book. 😅
People thrive when the community supports them. Imagine if we all helped everybody.
I NEED an impractical EV that corrodes from coughing on it from a guy who also posts Doge memes so they can use that money to put a car in space and buy a social media platform to crash it into the ground harder than any of their space projects.
There are no good billionaires.
I was just reading about a billionaire earlier and the wikipedia article literally takes a paragraph about him being sued by the attorney general for wrongdoing and tries to turn it into a feelgood story.
As a settlement to the lawsuit, he (graciously) agreed to donate millions of dollars to organizations (as long as he got to choose them).
Let us bow down to the greatest altruistic human to ever roam the earth! /s
Good for her, I wish her well in all her endeavors to kill the Batman.
Hey no one look at the corruption of the legacy admissions. Everyone get distracted with the shiny object.
Fuck Harvard
Taxpayer funded playground for rich kids to “network” encouraging a good ole boys system
I cannot fathom that universities no longer can consider color/race/ethnic - but they can totally let rich alumni’s kids in no prob.
fuck all legacy bullshit.
I guarantee you that this is next on the chopping block, but it won’t be caused by conservatives.
I’m not trying to make it sound like I’m NOT saying fuck Harvard, but I just looked at their financials for '23 and they’re actually not taxpayer funded, except for research funding.
They are a non-profit which means they aren’t paying taxes. There is zero practical difference between the government giving you money and the government not taxing you. Either way you get more and the state gets less. And that is just Harvard by itself, that doesn’t include all the tax breaks people get for donating to them so their spoiled brat can get a spot. Basically the taxpayer is subsidizing bribes.
This of course ignores that they openly defied the government when they were asked to clear the whole AA mess up. All it would have taken was them to just show their entrance criteria and put the issue to rest.
Partially true. I know a non-legacy, non-rich, Asian person that went there. Of course, he was incredibly smart and involved in many extra-circular activities in high school.
Harvard earns enough off trust interest they’d never have to charge another student tuition and room/board if they didn’t want to.
They could just take all the smartest kids like this regardless of where they come from.
It’s why having the most important part of our education system be for profit has never made sense. Just because you’re wealthy or your Daddy went there doesn’t mean you should get to take up a spot at one of the best schools on the planet.
It makes perfect sense the second one stops believing in the lie that America is a meritocratic society.
Obviously, but I’m saying the only reason it’s like that, is the people calling the shots are the ones saying it has to stay that way.
If K-12 isn’t enough of an education, we need to extend what counts as public education. Whether that means college or trade schools.
Post secondary education is an investment in our country, not just a way to squeeze money out of 18 year old kids.
You are completely right, and I think everyone in power realizes that. They also realize that they can buy a spot for their kids in a good university, but there is no way in hell their kids would make it to the top any other way. So they have no interest in changing it.
Changing the way universities work in the US would require a freaking revolution. It’s not about giving opportunities to those from worse-off backgrounds; it’s about taking away opportunities from the rich and tearing down structures of inherited power. So naturally the resistance to doing so is going to be immense, and whoever sets out to do it need to know what they’re up against.
Probably why the republicans are so angry about forgiving student loan debts.
Harvard earns enough off trust interest they’d never have to charge another student tuition and room/board if they didn’t want to.
They could just take all the smartest kids like this regardless of where they come from.
They do, technically. The admissions process is need-blind, meaning they decide whether to accept a student before looking at any financials, then provide enough financial aid for them to attend. Something like a quarter of the students don’t pay anything.
Yeah, 25% is what the website says, but that sounds like it includes scholarships. So pretty much every athlete and other scholarships.
They have an estimate tool too
https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculator
75k parental income and 10k in assets was enough for it to be 15k/year.
That’s a lot of money to a family of four with 1 kid in college.
And Harvard doesn’t need a penny of it.
