Comment by snowwrestler
20 hours ago
It would be similar if your stock dividends were your sole irreplaceable means of support. So, you sell your stock and give the money to MIT. Now you can’t buy more stock, and therefore have no future income. Permanently ending your career to send your kid to college is an unreasonable sacrifice, in my book.
I wouldn't want to make that sacrifice either, but I also understand that im not entitled to tuition assistance as some sort of human right
No one is arguing it is some sort of human right. The argument is that being the owner-operator of a small business is a financially different situation from having a lot of liquid wealth sitting around. And that smart universities should figure that out so they don’t accidentally lose good students over silly structural flaws in their financial aid processes.
There are countries with free public respected universities. So yeah not a human right but not that far off depending on where you live.
yes, and Europe also has some extremely expensive private universities, and the US has vastly cheaper options than MIT.