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You can also give resources to those who aren't in privilege so they are able to succeed academically, and don't need to have their admission average artificial
by GhostVII 7y ago
You can also give resources to those who aren't in privilege so they are able to succeed academically, and don't need to have their admission average artificially lowered.
- fzeroracer 7y agoGiving resources is also a zero-sum game. When you're giving more resources to those that aren't privileged, you are in effect denying those same resources for those that are. For example, school admissions. We can provide more funding for underperforming schools, but that is also less funding going towards better performing schools. At a certain point you will have to accept that to help the poor it will mean cutting off certain benefits for more well-off. Then the discussion becomes around how much resources should be shifted around.
- remote_phone 7y agoNo. If I can afford to provide my own resources, I’m okay with this. Just like I’m okay paying for social security but not receiving any when I retire. Those that have more resources can afford to take less than those that don’t have enough resources themselves. What I’m not okay with is adjusting scores and denying opportunity because of economic class warfare.
- jachee 7y agoYou seem to be in the minority in that regard. Those that have more resources have historically spent significant amounts of those resources to ensure that they pay in as little of them to anyone else as possible.