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The analogy isn't a good one, as you get no value out of the trip to Hong Kong in your scenario. A more relevant analogy is if I offered you $1,200 on the cond
by ajiang 8y ago
The analogy isn't a good one, as you get no value out of the trip to Hong Kong in your scenario.
A more relevant analogy is if I offered you $1,200 on the condition you spend that money on a home gym. Could you have other uses for the money? Sure. Could you have higher priorities than exercise? Sure.
Are you going to turn that down? Probably not.
An even more appropriate analogy is if I offered you $2,500, but $1,200 had to be spent on a home gym. The remainder has no conditions. That would be closer to what a lot of big donations are structured as.
- davesque 8y agoYou're leaving out aspects of that analogy. You left out the part where you incur the added cost of electricity, or your current home isn't big enough so you need to move to a new area with higher property taxes and insurance costs. Or maybe you're renting the home to someone and force them to get a new gym in exchange for higher rent. The point is, who actually benefits from the donation; the fancy pants administrators and donators or the actual students who'd probably prefer lower tuition and better quality instruction? Somehow, big donations never seem to translate to the the obvious benefit of affordability and accomplishing the actual goal of providing a good education to people.