So, the day after being publicly shamed into not taking $9mm in taxpayer “relief” funds, Harvard details its new policy to try to use its $41bn endowment to hammer American jobs and defund energy, automobiles, airlines, construction & manufacturing:https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/economist-talks-endowment-strategy-and-environmental-change/ …
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This is wrong, cynical, elitist, and cruel. It’s virtue signaling for the rich & powerful, at the expense of blue-collar America.
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At the same time it’s using its vast resources to try to bully the American economy, Harvard happily takes over $600mm in federal funding each year for research.
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Well, if Harvard is going to actively work to destroy American jobs, it seems to me the federal government should redirect those funds elsewhere:https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/economist-talks-endowment-strategy-and-environmental-change/ …
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So, the co’s that Harvard will now not invest in (or divest from) presumably include: oil & gas; coal; electricity (other than pure wind & solar); EVERY car company; ALL airplanes & air travel; ALL trains; ALL trucking; ALL steel; UPS & FedEx; Amazon & ANY Tech that delivers....
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It's very odd how the leftist ideology ends up guiding these choices. It just doesn't end up making sense overall. All kinds of hypocrisy trying to follow it because it's based on flawed beliefs.
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