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> If you lose donations, then costs go up for everyone else. Aren't costs going up for everyone else anyway? Hot take: instead of hoping that rich alumni would
by yakireev 4y ago
> If you lose donations, then costs go up for everyone else.
Aren't costs going up for everyone else anyway? Hot take: instead of hoping that rich alumni would donate to universities, the nation could tax these folks properly instead, and use that money make public education free/cheap.
There are quite a few countries in the world doing this, not all of them rich.
- chaostheory 4y agoThat would help public universities, but many universities are private
- yakireev 4y agoIn many countries with a single-payer health system all or some of the hospitals providing care are private. One could imagine a similar single-payer education system where some of institutions providing education are private too.