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Re:When a College Takes on American Poverty by nsnick on Sunday June 03, 2018 @02:38PM (#17221003)
What you are describing is a Ponzi Scheme
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Re:When a College Takes on American Poverty by jabgrabdthrow on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:22PM (#17222206)
No, he’s describing redistribution (some people get a bigger payout proportional to what they paid in). You can have solvent pyramid shaped schemes, and SS isn’t even pyramid shaped except incidentally.
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