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Re:Coursera S-1 IPO by gojomo on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:24AM (#26367980)
Who's the "we" who are supposedly against for-profit education?

And, why would someone's negative impression of one particular for-profit education outfit – one whose abuses were strongly associated with a particular set of misguided incentive-misaligning government loan subsidies – turn them off against all for-profit educators?

Would either of the following formulations make sense:

"I thought we were all against for-profit investor Bernie Madoff, why do people like for-profit investor Warren Buffett?"

"I thought we were all against for-profit medical hype like Theranos, why do people like for-profit BioNTech's mRNA vaccine?"

You shouldn't erase all the other salient differences between people & projects under some broad, & assumed derogatory, "for-profit" label.

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