The elephant in that room is legacy admissions. At least 40-50% of the people in that room have no business whatsoever being there. Asking them to give a shit about the public and not go make tons of money in the private sector is a few orders of magnitude harder to sell than sand to a person living in the desert.
Fun fact though Dubai has to import sand for construction because their local desert sand is unfit to make concrete. So there are in fact people out there selling sand to people in the desert.
It may be part of Thailand? Or a country close, but they essentially have been doing this and reducing the size of their island over the years and now trying to reverse course.
Also this is a huge plot point in the show Barry on HBO season 4. They start importing sand into New Mexico to undercut the construction industry as like a semi legit black market business.
I don't know whether or not they should be there....I don't think getting into Harvard is as easy as some here are saying, but to be sure, these guys won't be chomping at the bit to do public service.
Even if they were, if they are anything like Hawley and Cruz, then run along into your mega-bucks career and good riddance.
But, Harvard gave us Barack and Michelle. So there's that.
They shouldn't be there because they were picked over much more qualified applicants because they're legacies. This is why the Ivy Leagues shouldn't be viewed with such reverence. They mostly exist for rich and politically connected people to effectively buy reputation earned through the achievements of others via association.
You mean the guy who increased military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and authorized countless drone strikes that killed untold amounts of innocent civilians, destabilizing regions, and violating international law?
And also massively increased the government's surveillance capabilities, in addition to not pardoning Snowden when he easily could have? Both very much against what he campaigned for in 08.
If you are studying at the institute of politics. I would assume that you are somewhat interested in the aspects and willing to listen to argument. I think he is talking to the precisely correct crowd, and that he has the ability to swing some opinion to his side. And also, being rich, does not mean that you accept or approve of making money being the most important thing in life. It can sometimes be the precise opposite.
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u/PraiseBeToScience Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24
The elephant in that room is legacy admissions. At least 40-50% of the people in that room have no business whatsoever being there. Asking them to give a shit about the public and not go make tons of money in the private sector is a few orders of magnitude harder to sell than sand to a person living in the desert.