The Misunderstanding About Education That Cost Mark Zuckerberg $100M

Re:The Misunderstanding About Education That Cost Mark Zucke... by londons_explore on Friday October 13, 2023 @05:05AM (#37868469)

I'm of the opinion that money concentrated in few hands actually leads to better big projects.

Sure, some will fail, but it's better than the alternative, which is everything run by committee.

Committee 's tend to never manage to agree on any big bets - and therefore all resources get ploughed into low risk mundane things with no ongoing benefit. The town hall gets repainted frequently, rather than resources being spent building a cathedral.

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Re:The Misunderstanding About Education That Cost Mark Zucke... by ehnto on Friday October 13, 2023 @05:42AM (#37868686)

Horses for courses though, I would prefer my council do mundane maintenance than build a cathedral.

Maintenance isn't sexy or grand but it is good for the normal, everyday people who have to use the stuff to do the things.

Bigger infrastructure projects are often done by the state.

But for more frivolous, would never happen otherwise stuff, certainly a single deep pocket is a good thing to reach into.

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