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Re:Bitcoin Breaks $60k by matheusmoreira on Saturday March 13, 2021 @11:34AM (#26447652)
Because if you inject trillions of dollars into the economy, people are going to notice and they will immediately move to capture as much of it as possible. No system remains honest when faced with such temptation.

Student loans are responsible for destroying academic integrity. Schools raise tuition because the government is paying for it. Students will be left with the debt after graduation but by that point they are no longer the school's problem. They also do everything possible to prevent students from dropping out, including interfering with the work of teachers. School administrators are getting rich off of the trilions of dollars being injected into the economy. Meanwhile privileges such as tenure are being abolished because they don't serve the administrator's interests.

Re:Bitcoin Breaks $60k by etrautmann on Saturday March 13, 2021 @11:42AM (#26447711)
I think the situation with grade inflation and loans, and the set of incentives in higher ed is a little more nuanced that you're portraying here. Universities have always had to compete for students, and the argument that the incentives pushing for student retention would disappear if student loans didn't exist seems speculative and unsupported.
Re:Bitcoin Breaks $60k by Finnucane on Sunday March 14, 2021 @08:39PM (#26461218)
That’s a long walk back from ‘won’t survive.’