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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Replying to @drethelin @kevin_bowen
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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is there really a bright line between the two?
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definitely not have now decided that democratic governance is fucked by its incentives though the basic social contract is that the governor acts decently enough not to be widely reviled but that just incentivizes being a squeakier, crazier wheel that needs more grease
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and you run that forward for a while and you have the present year
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