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Plenty of people make donations for reasons of prestige, legacy and even genuine care, which have nothing to do with making sure their kid gets into a certain s

Plenty of people make donations for reasons of prestige, legacy and even genuine care, which have nothing to do with making sure their kid gets into a certain school.

stale2002 7y ago
But there would still be less of those donations. There would be some, yes. But significantly less. And less money means that these school are unable to let in as many poor people as they did before.
- munk-a 7y ago
  In general terms regarding systems in our society - If the system is dependent on charity to support it... it isn't supported, if the system is valued by society then society should support it up to the cost of it's value. Education is absolutely worth the cost and the need to charity is highlighting the underfunding here[1]. [1] Also, the inefficient use of money, higher education is absolutely guilty of inefficient operation with lots of cushy bureaucrat jobs, but imagine we could make higher education efficient and it still required an additional injection of cash via charitable donations.
  - stale2002 7y ago
    > If the system is dependent on charity to support it... it isn't supported This could apply to literally everything in the world, forever. Unless 1,000 trillion dollars per year is being spent on education, then that educational system would benefit from more charity. More charity is basically always good. Nobody at all loses from this. More money gets spent on the university, and this money more than pays for the cost of the student. This allows even more students to benefit from this. Why should we sacrifice the education of 10 kids, just to stop 1 rich kid from going to a top college?
  - kortilla 7y ago
    >In general terms regarding systems in our society - If the system is dependent on charity to support it... it isn't supported Whoops, you got that backwards. If a system is dependent on compulsory taxes, it isn’t supported. If nobody cares to voluntarily donate to it or pay for services on their own, then it’s not something really valued by society.

Plenty of people make donations for reasons of prestige, legacy and even genuine care, which have nothing to do with making sure their kid gets into a certain school.

stale2002 7y ago

But there would still be less of those donations. There would be some, yes. But significantly less. And less money means that these school are unable to let in as many poor people as they did before.

munk-a 7y ago
In general terms regarding systems in our society - If the system is dependent on charity to support it... it isn't supported, if the system is valued by society then society should support it up to the cost of it's value. Education is absolutely worth the cost and the need to charity is highlighting the underfunding here[1]. [1] Also, the inefficient use of money, higher education is absolutely guilty of inefficient operation with lots of cushy bureaucrat jobs, but imagine we could make higher education efficient and it still required an additional injection of cash via charitable donations.
- stale2002 7y ago
  > If the system is dependent on charity to support it... it isn't supported This could apply to literally everything in the world, forever. Unless 1,000 trillion dollars per year is being spent on education, then that educational system would benefit from more charity. More charity is basically always good. Nobody at all loses from this. More money gets spent on the university, and this money more than pays for the cost of the student. This allows even more students to benefit from this. Why should we sacrifice the education of 10 kids, just to stop 1 rich kid from going to a top college?
- kortilla 7y ago
  >In general terms regarding systems in our society - If the system is dependent on charity to support it... it isn't supported Whoops, you got that backwards. If a system is dependent on compulsory taxes, it isn’t supported. If nobody cares to voluntarily donate to it or pay for services on their own, then it’s not something really valued by society.