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coalition_unwilling

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10. Notice how you completely side-step my main contention? To wit, the only way

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #9)

Fri Apr 20, 2012, 01:08 PM

Apr 2012

an institution of higher education can earn a 'profit' from education is by charging its consumers more than the true cost of that service. In your moral universe, such opportunism seems acceptable. In my moral universe, I prefer that students, the poor, the cold and the homeless not be grist for the profit motive.

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It is obscene that farmers make a profit on exboyfil Apr 2012 #9

Notice how you completely side-step my main contention? To wit, the only way coalition_unwilling Apr 2012 #10

Yes exactly how Karl Marx exboyfil Apr 2012 #11

I'm not sure that I think the profit motive is 'evil,' per se, but when coalition_unwilling Apr 2012 #12

"...teach at a for-profit vocational college..." Leftist Agitator Apr 2012 #7

K&R. Want to watch this one. n/t Egalitarian Thug Apr 2012 #8