My-Left-Plate t1_izulb74 wrote on December 11, 2022 at 11:28 PM

Reply to comment by TeaWithMingus in MIT campus will remain open to public by reveazure

They are by definition and the law a non-profit. Again if you don’t like the law, run for office and change the law.

These universities act very differently from a public corporation and also very differently than a private for-profit corporation. The decision makers have very different motives which lead to very different outcomes.

These universities educate our brightest, but mainly they are huge economic wealth creators. If you made a country out of the companies that have been created and spun off of MIT it would be the 10th wealthiest country in the world. These are the companies that employ America. This public/private partnership is one of the bedrocks of America and it is something to be excited about, not complain about.

TeaWithMingus t1_izuls6v wrote on December 11, 2022 at 11:32 PM

I would argue they are part of the reason for our country having such a class divide and obvious disparity of wealth

My-Left-Plate t1_izur7s8 wrote on December 12, 2022 at 12:11 AM

Having companies that generate wealth is not the reason we have an increasing wealth gap. We had MIT and these companies being generated in 1955 too. But what we had then was a 95% top marginal tax rate.