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Re: Costs and Benefits
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:59:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
> > If the cost is $3,400 per household, what is the value of the benefits?
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> Doesn't sound right. That figure is tiny compared to some of the
> ideas proposed here, such as free university tuition. I think you
> could only get about a month of schooling at a private university
> for that price. (You can't compare to tuition at a public school
> because they've already got a substantial sum of our money.)
Ya, but is this war, on balance, worth more to me than a month of private
schooling? I'm not sure. Both of these things have very hard to measure
benefits.
I'd suggest we compare against 3400 USD worth of LEGO (where the benefits are
presumably more quantifiable?? !!! hehehe) but that might accidentally take us
"on-topic"...
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| (...) Hmmm, I've got the impression that if 3400 USD worth of LEGO suddenly appeared in your basement, you might not even notice. I'm insanely jealous, by the way. ;^) (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Doesn't sound right. That figure is tiny compared to some of the ideas proposed here, such as free university tuition. I think you could only get about a month of schooling at a private university for that price. (You can't compare to tuition (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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