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		gruez on Aug 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Harvard University encourages grad students to go ... Humans aren't ec2 instances that you can spin up/down at will. "the basic living needs of those doing the labor" exists whether or not they're working. It's a sunk cost, unless we as a society are willing to let them die of hunger.

Eddy_Viscosity2 on Aug 12, 2023 [–]

This doesn't mean that Havard should get the benefits of people's hard work without paying the full cost for it.

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