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As a Massachusetts resident, I'm strongly supportive of taxing the shit out of these freeloaders - it's beyond time we punish these people for what they've done
by laidoffamazon 3y ago
As a Massachusetts resident, I'm strongly supportive of taxing the shit out of these freeloaders - it's beyond time we punish these people for what they've done to the rest of us.
Unfortunately, it's true that there's a big emotional reaction to attacking these big institutions - similar to the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" phenomeon a lot of people seem to think they or their descendents are "temporarily embarrassed HYPSM+ admits"
- singleshot_ 3y agoA large part of what makes Massachusetts amazing is the fact so many people are so well educated. I wouldn’t really call Harvard a freeloader so much as a three hundred year old indispensable part of the community.
- laidoffamazon 3y agoWe aren't highly educated because of Harvard and MIT, which do not make up the most of our college educated citizens
- singleshot_ 3y agoThey don’t make up most of our educated citizens, but they do account for many of our most educated citizens. Fwiw, wishing for the power to punish people for being highly educated is not a good look.
- laidoffamazon 3y agoI don't understand this distinction. A PhD from UMass Amherst in CS is also "highly educated", as an example. But I do think we should punish the cognitive elites from the ivory towers (aka not UMass Amherst) who look down on people like me and consider me to be an underhuman.