Harvard University with its 53.2 billion dollar endowment
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It's OK to pay money to billionaires.
Federal grants to research universities are just a commission to research some topic that an agency finds valuable enough to fund with taxpayer money. If I don't feel swindled when I buy groceries from a multi-billion dollar corporation like Walmart then I don't believe I should feel bad just because my taxes are funding research at an institution with a multi-billion dollar endowment. We all got what we paid for and at a reasonable price. There is plenty of culture war slop research that should be defunded, but the endowment is a red herring in my opinion.
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Norman_Rockwell_Freendom_Of_Speech.jpg
It's OK to pay money to billionaires.
Federal grants to research universities are just a commission to research some topic that an agency finds valuable enough to fund with taxpayer money. If I don't feel swindled when I buy groceries from a multi-billion dollar corporation like Walmart then I don't believe I should feel bad just because my taxes are funding research at an institution with a multi-billion dollar endowment. We all got what we paid for and at a reasonable price. There is plenty of culture war slop research that should be defunded, but the endowment is a red herring in my opinion.
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