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0 pointsyakireev3y ago0 comments

> 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.

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chaostheory3y ago

That would help public universities, but many universities are private

yakireevOP3y ago

In 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.

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