I think this because I know a lot of academics and nonprofit workers and managers who believe that money doesn’t need to come in and raises can come from anywhere

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I sincerely believe that many people—not just the public, but elites—do not make a connection between budget cuts and institutional degradation. They think institutions “just work” without money. Cut X language funding but you will still have X language experts, of course. Only throw. Never take

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this seems especially true in u.s. public schools (primary and secondary), where it creates a vicious cycle of "public schools are bad so we should do vouchers," which takes more money from public schools

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like the problem with turning off adblockers is that ads on the internet nowadays seem almost exclusively to be either health scams or this

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fwiw Matthew McConaughey telling everyone to "vote independent" prob helps Dems in a cycle where extremely low info voters this pitch might work on are mostly Republicans and the independents who matter on ballots are basically Democrats (senate candidates in ID, MT, NE)

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