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Even though these institutions are facing internal problems, they're still better run and will probably out last whatever government is around them. We should

• yieldcrv 3y ago
  100% These things have a target on them for pretending to be inclusive at all But the only reason for that is because the common person & industry decided that university degrees are necessary for workplace eligibility. This is a half century aberration that will go away as quickly as it came about, and these 400 year olds institutions will continue being their isolated elite trading cards for a whole millenium
• bas 3y ago
  Amusingly, and colloquially, Harvard predates the government by more than a century.
• anon373839 3y ago
  > We should be lowering government spending and lowering taxes, not trying to spend more. After seeing the inefficiency and incompetence of government bureaucracies for so many years, I’ve really come around to this idea. I don’t think we should have a libertarian free-for-all, because that carries its own problems. But I do think a great deal more policy could be effectuated through market-based mechanisms and private rights of action instead of clueless and corrupt functionaries.
• lmm 3y ago
  > Even though these institutions are facing internal problems, they're still better run and will probably out last whatever government is around them. No, you just hear more about the problems with government because they have much better accountability measures. Which is exactly why it's better for money to be taxed, and services run by governments, than these things handed over to the opaque and unaccountable NGO complex.