• scoobford@lemmy.zip
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    Average cost of college is under $150k/person. Warrant Buffet is worth $133,500,000,000 (rounded heavily). Warranty buffet could pay for approximately 890,000 people to go to college.

    However given the fact that is most of a million people, and how much of a racket education in the US, I think the actual figure is much higher, because he could do several things to drastically reduce the overhead involved.

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      6 months ago

      It would be far cheaper for him to build an accredited college and fully staff it for 20 years, providing free education, books, and rooms, to everyone who attends.

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      6 months ago

      Average cost of college is under $150k/person

      My guy, what? Tuition prices in the US are fucked, but “under $150k/person” is such a weird way to put $25,290

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        6 months ago

        That’s for 1 year’s tuition. I looked up the average for 4 years plus books, supplies, fees, etc.

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          You’re talking to the average gullible idiot who falls for “fiscal conservative policies”, this is how they always frame gov spending or anything else, leaving out 80% of the costs, ignoring the bigger picture. Also always being confidently incorrect.

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          That must be heavily skewed by expensive out-of-state colleges. I’m finding average yearly in-state tuition costs quoted between $7-10k.