Counterpoint: Harvard’s endowment is billions of dollars, they don’t need student money. Many others have plenty of money too. Any time a university caves into student protesting it’s actually an excuse to do something an admin wanted to do anyway, like remove a rival.https://twitter.com/black_kettle/status/1022147993250787329 …
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Seeing a metric like donations/year take a nosedive might mean nothing to Harvard the institution, but it still looks really bad for whatever admin is running things at the time. It's like the principal/agent problem in reverse, institutions can weather things their agents cannot
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is this the Tin Law of Institutions
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for me this stems from this Terry Pratchett bit on old tribes that would select a king via a single unbaked bean in the winter feast. While things were good, the king would live well. But when the winters grew long & the crops failed, the king would be offered up as a sacrifice.
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Alinsky talks about similar (albeit non lethal) avenues for manipulating large institutions, inconveniencing and embarrassing the elites and their wives. It’s very high leverage relatively speaking
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