[129] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Objectivist morals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Constantine K. Christakos)
Fri Apr 20 15:57:17 2001
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:56:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Constantine K. Christakos" <dean@MIT.EDU>
To: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
cc: <mit-talk@mit.edu>
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Sourav K. Mandal wrote:
> And I've argued that to do that would be to compromise (albeit
> incrementally) Harvard's goal as an educational institution and
> research center -- a university should not be running a welfare
> program. If I were a student at Harvard, I would much rather that
> fellow students who want to give away money do so via other means.
Once again, Sourav, like many libertarians, you are demanding that the
students submit to paying market-rates for labor, even if they wish to pay
more. The students will pay whatever they darn-well please for the cost of
the labor they wish to buy, and they will not be forced to pay less just
because "the market" demands it. ("You students will pay the employees
$6.50/hr and you will like it!") :) They must remain in submission to the
market, at all times, from birth until death, right, so they must be
forcibly prevented from spending more money on salaries?
As I said, I fail to see how any number of other Harvard expenditures
doesn't supposedly compromise their goals as an educational institution
(Deans and accompanying staff, misc. symposia, RAs, scholars-in-residence,
etc., etc., etc.), so I'm tempted to say that the salaries and welfare of
their employees is an open issue... maybe the students would prefer to
attend an institution that paid their employees more.
-Dean
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