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Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by scotty79 on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:43PM (#39527836)
$10 mln can have a lot of influence locally.

And please feel free to have $10 million. Above that it's starting to look like you aren't into it just to secure yourself but rather control and impoverish others.

There are various ways of attaining influence. Money is just the easiest and least controlled. Morally and practically. So let's plug the biggest hole first then worry about the rest.

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Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by Brusco_RF on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:49PM (#39530535)
>feel free to have $10 million

Thanks, but you don't get to tell me what I'm allowed to have. This is basic property rights.

>control and impoverish others.

This is quite plainly the fixed pie fallacy[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy#:~:text....

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Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by scotty79 on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:57PM (#39532512)
Growing pie is same as fixed pie if the growth of inequality exceeds the growth of the pie. And it does. In US for last 50 years. Data shows that.
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