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On a similar note, I don’t get why people want government support services. People are making plenty of money! Just look at Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.

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Because there is worthwhile work that will never capture the interest of Gates or Bezos. For example, testing vehicle emissions is never going to be a billionaire interest project. Of great societal interest? Absolutely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/business/vw-wvu-diesel-vo...

This is really disingenous. We're not talking about Puhduka State here; the universities involved are literally the majolrity of the richest schools in the entire country. It's exactly like Gates and Bezos asking for public hand-outs, not denying help to many because there are a few rich people out there.

Pretty sure that commenter was doing a joke/sarcasm

[EDIT] - I hope*

I'm not sure what your point is with this comment. GP was saying the universities need a patent troll company because they need money. But universities are already making plenty of money.

/s? Picking those two are the least representative sample possible.

And what set of universities would form the least representative sample possible?

Talking about Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos - they're literally some of the richest people on the planet, most people don't have anywhere near that much money.

Not sure what you're referring to with the set of universities.

Harvard is the richest university in the country. Yale and Princeton are also in the top few.

All three of the universities from my comment are participating in the LLC in the article

I'm just trying to aid someone who was tantalizingly close to understanding another poster's joke.

But your comment does read to me like a criticism of "universities" as a broad class, not only of certain wealthy schools.

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