Wokism Funded by Superabundance of Govt Giveaways

These days we are seeing a superabundance of govt giveaways and how strongly they are distorting market signals, incentives, and prices. From health to energy to college.
I find it humorous that with the govt lending students limitless funds, school tuition and thus student debt load have gone through the roof.
Standford university has about 17,000 students, 2,000 to 3,000 faculty, and… 17,000 administrators.
The University of Michigan hired 163 diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) officers.
By the way, there has been a major shift from using tenured and tenure-track professors to using part-time adjunct faculty. Costs order of magnitude less… Leaving more money to hire… more administrators.
It’s a Shanda.
It reminds me of a gemora that says if you leave a drunken man to his own devices he falls down on his own.
Shabbos 32a:
רב חסדא אמר שבקיה לרויא דמנפשיה נפיל.
By the way, this corruption of universities is simply a symptom of the general life cycle of nations:
Infancy, adolescence, mature adulthood, the decline of middle age, senescence, feedstock for archaeologists.

David Friedman Hits the Nail on the Head

Riddle of the year: How is a public school like the U.S. Post Office?

Answer: It’s inefficient, it costs more each year than the last, it is a perpetual subject of complaint about which nothing is ever done. It is, in short, a typical government monopoly.

Source: The Machinery of Freedom (1973). David Friedman

Biden, Brezhnev, and Other Buffoons

An anti-Bezhnev joke (but one can substitute brain-dead Biden and timely characters just as well):

During Brezhnev’s visit to England, Prime Minister Thatcher asked the guest, “What is your attitude to Churchill?” “Who is Churchill?” Brezhnev said. Back in the embassy, the Soviet envoy said, “Congratulations, comrade Brezhnev, you’ve put Thatcher in her place. She will not ask stupid questions any more.” “And who is Thatcher?” Brezhnev said.

What Goyim Mean by ‘Equality Before the Law’

It’s in the Torah, so Goyim (and their Jewish epigones) give the principle lip service to look good.

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

– Nicholas Nickleby

As we have written in the past:

“The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

– Anatole France

This may be updated today thus:

“Likewise, The Law, in its majestic equality, permits the poor, as well as the crony rich, to draft regulations to hurt competition, to beg for corporate welfare on Wall Street, and to steal bread from those of fixed income by debasing currency and cartelizing banking.”