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Short term it does kind of look like they have now money than they need and it may seem a little disingenuous, but I'm not sure that they amassing a large pool
by bostonsre 5y ago
Short term it does kind of look like they have now money than they need and it may seem a little disingenuous, but I'm not sure that they amassing a large pool of money to ensure for their survival for the long term is all bad. They provide an invaluable tool to the world that allows anyone from anywhere to easily learn about anything. I would say that they are doing a great service to the world by ensuring their existence in perpetuity and that only focusing on securing funding for the short term would be incredibly short sighted and negligent.
- pydry 5y agoThe budget will expand to consume the additional funds. It did before. This will make it more financially tenuous, not more. Added to which, once the insitution is addicted to money it becomes that much easier to corrupt.
- bostonsre 5y agoYea, that could probably happen as well. Hopefully they are more judicious with their spending on current projects. But I guess aggressively spending in the short term to share more knowledge with a larger portion of the world could be a worthy cause as well. Hopefully those in power understand the gravity of the responsibility they have and they don't trend towards something like the leadership of the NRA (assuming reported corruption was true and not politically biased).
- cutemonster 5y ago> The budget will expand to consume the additional funds And the organization will grow? (More people) How can one stop such things, generally, in an organization? (If it was large enough already)