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easier said than done, but imagine the satisfaction of a US middle class person spending $480 to cover the yearly tuition to a poor but bright student in X coun

• smileysteve 8y ago
  > US middle class person spending $480 to cover the yearly tuition to a poor but bright student in X country? So, the U.S. has its own student loan bubble, that many economists believe is related to the increased availability of student loans AND/OR charitable donations to scholarship funds; Is there evidence that covering 3rd world tuition doesn't create further class divide, and/or increase the cost of tuition in general? And that perceivably "bright" students are already often the best off. Also realize that in many places in the world with $480/year tuition are receiving education from sources that get at least some of their funding or staff from NGOs; and that in many cases, "education" is in many cases separating children from their families -- and potentially (though the result dithers morally) decreasing the entire family's ability to be self sufficient by removing productive workers (in a culture where minimum, age of laborers in lower than the U.S. 16)
• perl4ever 8y ago
  The concept of adopting someone in a poor country and sending them money was a thing at least 40-50 years ago, and if people (such as in this thread) no longer remember that it was a thing, I'm guessing it's because it became known as a large scale scam and people got disillusioned.