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Comment · 12 years ago
Unfortunately that isn't really up to us, since in our society you have to work to survive until you die or retire. Until having no job means a livable lifestyle, most people have to consider real dollar values when considering education.
Comment · 12 years ago
Privacy pit?
Comment · 12 years ago
No. People are free to associate with whomever they wish. Just as Mozilla is free to appoint an anti-gay CEO, those of us who disagree with that direction are free to go elsewhere when we choose to contribute to an open-source project.
Comment · 12 years ago
Your colleges will only produce successful people in the sense that success can be directly correlated with income. There would be no point in doing anything else. Do you think that income-generating activities are the only purpose of education?
Comment · 12 years ago
I didn't even think you were talking about grants. Are you saying grants are responsible for high tuition costs? Without grants, the gap would have to be made up in student loans. What good would that do? It would simply make students assume a higher debt burden to get the same education that society demands from them.
Comment · 12 years ago
Much like how slave owners worked the cotton fields themselves, with the superficial detail of the work having passed through the body of a slave first.
Comment · 12 years ago
I don't know anyone who gets free money for college, except for people who inherit their money or have rich parents. I feel like this is a really central part of your argument, and it doesn't hold water. Every cent we go into debt has to be paid back with interest, and the students who have to foot the bill have zero input in the hiring standards of the companies we have to work for when we graduate.

I think trying to save money by cutting benefits to underpriveliged people is extremely wrongheaded. That money is an investment, it's not just set in fire and wasted. (For that, see the vast taxpayer subsidies we hand out to telecoms and dirty coal companies..)

Comment · 12 years ago
Different Universities exist for different purposes; often times multiple purposes at once. You can't run a research and educational system without administration. But as a student, I don't see gleaming new facilities or well-paid professors with nice cars. I see everything is crap, the professors are unhappy/underpaid, and the students are depressed and going into huge amounts of debt to pay for all this. Where's all this money going? Who are the ones getting rich from our future?
Comment · 12 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
Lessons learned from running an apparently moderately successful grocery chain in 1920s America.
Comment · 12 years ago
Why make good stuff when you can over-engineer and over-sell garbage?
Comment · 12 years ago
There are nuclear engineers, doctors, highly trained technicians, government agencies and regulatory bodies who handle cleaning up nuclear accidents. Untrained elderly people would not help at all.

Remember the tsunami killed 20,000 people that day and Fukushima never killed anyone. Might be some cancers years down the road but the idea of sacrificing the elderly to save the world from some nuclear disaster belongs in a comic book, not reality.

Comment · 12 years ago
> This could be a good thing. I want to make it illegal for people to collect any kind of data of what I do on my property. If you want to come see, then you'll have to talk to my secretary and pay a million dollars for an exclusive interview.

Become rich; purchase laws like this one from politicians. Your dream is reality!

Comment · 12 years ago
The victims in this case are cows.

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