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>>tedsan+(OP)
This is so much money with which we could actually solve problems in the world. maybe even stop wars which break out because of scarcity issues.

maybe i am getting to old or to friendly to humans, but it's staggering to me how the priorities are for such things.

>>deknos+6a1
For less than this same price tag, we could’ve eliminated student loan debt for ~20 million Americans. It would in turn open a myriad number of opportunities, like owning a home and/or feeling more comfortable starting a family. It would stimulate the economy in predictable ways.

Instead we gave a small number of people all of this money for a moonshot in a state where they squabble over who’s allowed to use which bathroom and if I need an abortion I might die.

>>CSSer+xk1
Eliminating some student debt is a fish. Free university is the fishing rod. Do that instead.

>>nejsjs+Sw1
Free to the student sounds nice, but who pays for it in the end? And does an education lose a bit of its value when anyone can get it for free?

>>_heimd+a02
That's one of the most uneducated ignorant things I've heard anyone say in this entire discussion.

Does health insurance also lose its value when anyone can get it for free?

>>DonHop+se3
If everyone has a Harvard degree, the value of a Harvard degree loses value, yes.

>>itsokt+fl3
Compare to: If everybody can read, reading loses value.

If everyone has sanitised water it loses value.

Value is the overloaded word. We don't need to scarcity things so dollar number goes up for some elite group.

A good test is forget money and think of human collaboration. People doing things. Does it makes sense from that perspective.

Best way to scale Harvard is easy: make all the other places better (or if they are make people realise that)