Even during a crisis, colleges abuse their economic and reputational privileges

Re:Even during a crisis, colleges abuse their economic and r... by watwut on Sunday April 12, 2020 @08:09AM (#22847690)

That being said, in 1700-hundreads they still depended on army. And the interdependence with other households was great too. The was reasons back then for people to bundle themselves into small cities - survival on you own would be quite hard.

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Re:Even during a crisis, colleges abuse their economic and r... by nabla9 on Sunday April 12, 2020 @08:59AM (#22847960)

Another misconception is that free market is the default state in society.

In the pre-industrial societies concept of 'fair price' in contrast to 'market price' was very important. Any attempt to increase or lower price to get advantage of distress of others was dealt by the community.

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Re:Even during a crisis, colleges abuse their economic and r... by battery_cowboy on Sunday April 12, 2020 @08:19AM (#22847740)

That's the big lie: that there ever were more than a small handful of actual frontiersman, most people lived in civilization, but the people in power want you to believe you come from a long line of bootstrappers. In reality, we've all been interdependent for hundreds and thousands of years, being ground down by the elite.

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