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I invite you to imagine the public image consequences of a situation where, say, Jeff Bezos funds the poorest 200 urban high schools in America back up to a tolerable level in exchange for having them named after him. You may well oppose that idea - and for good reasons!
But it would have some pretty big long term consequences, I am guessing, to the public sense of Bezos in particular but also the wealthy in general if you ended up with a situation where half the country lived in a town with at least one "Jeff Bezos High School.'
Why do you think this kind of practice ceased? An effect of the post-War expansion of the public welfare state? Something else?
Frankly? The Meritocracy. The belief today by much of the elite (a group, to be clear, that I probably ought to include myself in, what with my degrees) that their success is entirely earned rather than but-for-the-grace-of-God reduces the emotional demand for noblesse oblige.
If this were to happen in today's climate, the money would only come with many strings attached. Beyond narcissistically naming the school after the craven billionaire, they'd also demand dictating curriculum, teacher salaries, non-unionizing...
Never understood why the rich don't pay more taxes. If you getting rich, the less taxes you pay. Strange concept.
Only if it were better than the Carnegie libraries many places were saddled with
Mark Zuckerberg did that. It didn't work.https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-schools-education-newark-mayor-ras-baraka-cory-booker-2018-5 …
Isn't that pretty much what Andrew Carnegie did?
He was the ur-example I thought of when Dr. Devereaux mentioned it being done in the American past. Possibly because I live in Pennsylvania, but yes, Carnegie put his name on goddamn everything.
I love the concept of reputational capital but the historical problem with this sort of largesse is of course letting the donor choose their donations and use them as a bully pulpit. There may be no better current example than academia. But it's a general concept worth pursuing.
Yeah, my spouse used to work in facilities for an ivy league university, and it was a constant issue that they couldn't build new wings fast enough to keep up with the donor cash, while sanitation, HVAC, and electrical systems were languishing.
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