• witx@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    What I meant is someone has to pay for it, it’s not free lunch. You’re right that the students don’t pay it through taxes, but someone has to. Myself as a working person do pay for others through taxes

    Edit: as people seem to have failed to see my point: I’m glad my taxes help pay for other’s studies

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      4 months ago

      Why do you think OP is not aware that there are costs to be paid but merely disagrees with using sports as a way to pay for it?

      You even used the word Utopian. Well most universities are not financed via sports even non public ones. Far from Utopian.

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        4 months ago

        A society which charges students to acquire knowledge values neither.

        Because this is literally what he said. He never mentioned sports, just charging in general.

        I understand his sentiment, but it’s not practical.

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          Charging students ≠ paying for the education through taxation as a public good

          It must be practical as it is the normal way university works in much of the industrial world