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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by eapressoandcats on Friday January 10, 2025 @10:09PM (#42662954)
I don’t think that’s true. It looks like the US has pretty similar spending to European countries at least as a percentage of GDP: https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by wyager on Saturday January 11, 2025 @10:39AM (#42666552)
"As a percentage of GDP" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Why would we normalize this to GDP?
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by einarfd on Saturday January 11, 2025 @11:53AM (#42667108)
Because a lot of it is salaries and other employee benefits.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by bdangubic on Saturday January 11, 2025 @10:46AM (#42666601)
what would we normalize it to? not saying you are wrong in any way, just curiously wondering?
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by wyager on Saturday January 11, 2025 @05:29PM (#42669459)
There's no a priori reason you would expect student expenditures to become less effective per dollar in richer countries, except the fraction spent on labor.
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Re:Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs by eapressoandcats on Sunday January 12, 2025 @10:39AM (#42674310)
Education is almost entirely labor and real estate. It’s a classic Baumol’s cost disease situation. Like I guess richer countries can purchase better computer labs?

So yeah, it’s probably true that the US spends more per pupil because we have a higher GDP per capita, but it’s not clear that we should expect to get a lot more out of it.

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