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Who's the "we" who are supposedly against for-profit education? And, why would someone's negative impression of one particular for-profit education outfit – on
by gojomo 6y ago
Who's the "we" who are supposedly against for-profit education?
And, why would someone's negative impression of one particular for-profit education outfit – one whose abuses were strongly associated with a particular set of misguided incentive-misaligning government loan subsidies – turn them off against all for-profit educators?
Would either of the following formulations make sense:
"I thought we were all against for-profit investor Bernie Madoff, why do people like for-profit investor Warren Buffett?"
"I thought we were all against for-profit medical hype like Theranos, why do people like for-profit BioNTech's mRNA vaccine?"
You shouldn't erase all the other salient differences between people & projects under some broad, & assumed derogatory, "for-profit" label.