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Given the high cost of tuition, are people really going to want to pay grad students higher salaries? A lot of nice things in life require that someone make a

Given the high cost of tuition, are people really going to want to pay grad students higher salaries? A lot of nice things in life require that someone make a low wage so they are affordable to you.

JKCalhoun 4y ago
Yes, I think that tuitions need to come down as well.
komali2 4y ago
Require? Genuinely require? It seems to me the high cost comes from attempting to create profit margin. If the profit is basically eliminated, the person can have the high wage, and we can have the nice things.
- WalterBright 4y ago
  > If the profit is basically eliminated, the person can have the high wage, and we can have the nice things. Somehow, however, such Marxist implementations never deliver those nice things.
  - komali2 4y ago
    Co-ops are Marxist? If so, wow, Marxist businesses are remarkably profitable, productive [1], and resilient [2]! [1] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/worker-cooperatives-are-more-productive-than-normal-companies/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/worker-cooperative... [2] https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative_survival_1.pdf https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative...
    - WalterBright 4y ago
      If they are so remarkably profitable, why aren't they pervasive?
      - komali2 4y ago
        Aren't they? The top 300 cooperatives apparently accounted for 2.2 trillion in turnover back in 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171022081215/http://monitor.coop/ https://web.archive.org/web/20171022081215/http://monitor.co...
        WalterBright 4y ago
        So go set one up, then! And btw, none of the text in your cite says anything about 2.2 trillion in turnover.
        komali2 4y ago
        Thanks, I'll need to update the link on wikipedia later, it was correct last week. I have set up a co-op. It's going quite well.
        WalterBright 4y ago
        Good luck with your co-op. I have no issue with people setting up co-ops in a free market.
    - WalterBright 4y ago
      You can set up marxist organizations in a free country. They're perfectly legal. They just cannot force people to join, or prevent people from leaving.

Given the high cost of tuition, are people really going to want to pay grad students higher salaries? A lot of nice things in life require that someone make a low wage so they are affordable to you.

JKCalhoun 4y ago

Yes, I think that tuitions need to come down as well.

komali2 4y ago

Require? Genuinely require? It seems to me the high cost comes from attempting to create profit margin. If the profit is basically eliminated, the person can have the high wage, and we can have the nice things.

WalterBright 4y ago
> If the profit is basically eliminated, the person can have the high wage, and we can have the nice things. Somehow, however, such Marxist implementations never deliver those nice things.
- komali2 4y ago
  Co-ops are Marxist? If so, wow, Marxist businesses are remarkably profitable, productive [1], and resilient [2]! [1] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/worker-cooperatives-are-more-productive-than-normal-companies/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/worker-cooperative... [2] https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative_survival_1.pdf https://www.uk.coop/sites/default/files/2020-10/co-operative...
  - WalterBright 4y ago
    If they are so remarkably profitable, why aren't they pervasive?
    - komali2 4y ago
      Aren't they? The top 300 cooperatives apparently accounted for 2.2 trillion in turnover back in 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171022081215/http://monitor.coop/ https://web.archive.org/web/20171022081215/http://monitor.co...
      - WalterBright 4y ago
        So go set one up, then! And btw, none of the text in your cite says anything about 2.2 trillion in turnover.
        komali2 4y ago
        Thanks, I'll need to update the link on wikipedia later, it was correct last week. I have set up a co-op. It's going quite well.
        WalterBright 4y ago
        Good luck with your co-op. I have no issue with people setting up co-ops in a free market.
  - WalterBright 4y ago
    You can set up marxist organizations in a free country. They're perfectly legal. They just cannot force people to join, or prevent people from leaving.