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Nice goals, but why does that require the participants commit financial suicide? Its hard to do it with a straight face, but you can kinda pretend that keeping
by VLM 11y ago
Nice goals, but why does that require the participants commit financial suicide?
Its hard to do it with a straight face, but you can kinda pretend that keeping the chemistry lab stocked and the electronics lab bench gear repaired costs $100K/yr. Maybe $10K/yr for some of the individual goof balls I went to class with, but certainly not on average. You can also pretend that paying the PHD student TA stipend costs $100K/yr/student, when the TA is getting less than minimum wage and is on food stamps. But its hard with a straight face to claim that talking about philosophy or gender magically costs $100K/yr/person.
- danans 11y agoI don't think it should require that they commit financial suicide at all. If anything, I think it requires a re-think of whether our society undervalues their efforts, and whether the educational costs we saddle them with are hugely inflated. That should be a valid discussion considering it is debatable how much the income and wealth disparity among professions is correlated with merit and value contributed by those professions to society.