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> So you promote furthering social inequality? No. I promote creating a culture of contributing back to educational institutions if you have the means to do so
by pm90 7y ago
> So you promote furthering social inequality?
No. I promote creating a culture of contributing back to educational institutions if you have the means to do so.
> Also donations from rich guys to their schools creates so many bad incentives even if you don't consider the direct effects. It means that rich kids will be valued more since they are tied to donations, it means that schools will seek out people who might become rich in the fuuture etc.
Schools have no way of knowing which of their kids will become rich and therefore there is 0 substance to your assertion that donating to schools will change their structure in perverse ways. Public Schools by definition don't select their students anyways.
- earenndil 7y agoThere are the kids who are already rich--or, rather, whose parents are already rich. More to the point, kids with affluent backgrounds are far more likely to develop means of their own
- pm90 7y agoI see your point. Systemically, most wealthy people will be the children of wealthy parents and their giving back will mostly propagate the inequality. That does make sense to me.
- earenndil 7y agoInterestingly, this also means that, even in public school, affluent children are likely to get a better education than less affluent children.