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A state school professor (Berkeley) called out a private school professor (Stanford) for a $5k/hour BS consulting fee. How does that make your case?
by nobodyandproud 4y ago
A state school professor (Berkeley) called out a private school professor (Stanford) for a $5k/hour BS consulting fee.
How does that make your case?
- dheera 4y agoThat BS consulting fee comes from my taxes.
- moistly 4y agoStrange that you pick a minuscule—nay, pissant—cost, when you could point to other waste that is literally millions of orders of magnitude greater. The BS consulting fee cost you perhaps a hundred-thousandth of a penny. The unnecessary war in Iraq cost you tens of thousands of dollars. Billions in subsidies to oil companies that are earning record-breaking profits is costing you hundreds of dollars. Don’t let clickbait distract you from the real pain.
- dheera 4y agoStrange that you didn't see this part "the latest of a constant firehose"
- sokoloff 4y ago> literally millions of orders of magnitude greater One order of magnitude is literally 10x (10¹) Two orders of magnitudes is 100x (10²) A million orders of magnitude would be 10¹⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰⁰. Millions of orders of magnitude would be larger still. There are estimated between 10⁷⁸ to 10⁸² atoms in the universe. Perhaps you meant to say “literally six to nine” rather than “literally millions”?
- moistly 4y agoIndeed. The point remains: OP has been fooled into fretting about relatively nothing so that the real issues aren’t noticed.
- nobodyandproud 4y agoAre you an Oxnard resident? How much of the school system is funded federally versus state versus locally? I agree it’s wasteful, but this seems more an indictment of Stanford and the veneer of prestige. It’s also tax dollars that put a check on the nonsense.