I don't understand the linked article (or your) point about this being some sort of illegal collusion. Can you help me understand how this is fundamentally different from an HOA enforcing things like "no boat parking"?
why would they open themselves up to those kinds of expenses and liabilities when their feeder systems are working just fine for them now?
The ATP & WTA would take issue with that claim.
because they don't have a grueling sport.
There are hundreds of schools or more that _do_ compete for consumers in that way. Similarly, HOAs in some areas may restrict boat parking. Other HOAs however, will allow it. Why is the metaphor not appropriate?
Whether or not a couple houses in a couple block area, or 1 apartment building all "collude" to do something has very little effect on the competitive market of the massive housing industry.
But large, major players in the education space (each of which enrolls thousands of students), all agreeing together to do something, has a much larger effect, in comparison.
This is not correct. There are HOAs spanning dozens of miles, with and tens of thousands of homes.
>But large, major players in the education space (each of which enrolls thousands of students), all agreeing together to do something, has a much larger effect, in comparison.
The vast majority of universities offer athletic scholarships, this is not really true either.
Primary function of a univerisy is the education market.
It is shocking to see the nunber of 'free market' advocates that do not understand basic functions of a market
This is a horrible comparison. Ivy league schools are competiting businesses in a market. Much different than a group of homes, which really aren't directly competing in a market.
(even though, I am sure you can twist an argument that they are. They really aren't. Most people are not trying to sell their homes, and there are a lot of homes all around the world. 'market collusion' between a couple homes not a big deal compared to huge businesses doing it).
> from an HOA enforcing things like "no boat parking"?
Because 1 ivy league school should have no business forcing a different school on the other side of the country on how they run their business, thats why.
Thats market collusion.
Fortunately, all the Ivy League schools are on the same side, in same corner even, of the country.
Because houses in the same HOA are literally right next to each other. Like a block away, whereas the same is not true for schools.
There are HOAs with tens of thousands of homes, spanning dozens of miles, this is not true.
Still has a significantly smaller effect on the market than a bunch of education institutions coming together to collude.
The education systems aren't even next to each other either. They don't have any business controlling other schools.
At least there is some nominal justification for a house to control their neighbors house, given that it is a living community.
I do not think that education systems as an entire system have the same justification to control one another.
Instead, they should compete in the market.
Citation needed. Again, the vast majority of Division 1 schools offer athletic scholarship. Where is this large collusion effect?
I am not sure if you were aware, but there are a lot of houses in the world.
In comparison, there aren't nearly as many high end, elite educational institutions.
I think that you are more than capable of finding a citation yourself that proves that there are quite a lot more houses in the world, than there are top educational institutions.
>In comparison, there aren't nearly as many high end, elite educational institutions.
The college enrollment rate is under 70%, and I am not sure if you were aware, but the percentage of people in homes is much greater than this.
I mean, you just proved the point I was making. High-end, elite, Division 1 schools overwhelmingly offer athletic scholarships, vs not offering them. Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, and UC Berkeley have greater student enrollment than all the ivy leagues combined. People always try to do mental gymnastics with some "any non-Ivy League is by definition not an elite school" but using any objective ranking measure, just add Georgetown, UCLA, Notre Dame, UNC, Michigan, and suddenly the enrollment of athletic-scholarship-offering schools are >10x that of the ones that don't offer them.
You're making rather wild unsubstantiated claims at this point ("# houses > # schools == ivy leagues have greater impact") after repeatedly failing to demonstrate how HOA is not a good analogy to this situation. Comically these claims are completely false - over 25% of the USA lives in HOA communities, but nowhere near that many D1 schools (and even less by enrollment) does not offer athletic scholarships. Congrats, you inadvertently proved that Ivies not giving academic scholarships has a negligible effect, especially compared to housing.
You actually think that 25% of the US population live in the same exact HOA?
What is the singular HOA that currently covers 100 million people?
If 25% of the US housing market agreed to literally the exact same agreement, then yes, that would be an appropriate analogy.
Is that why you thought this was an equivalent analogy? Because you actually thought that 100 million people had agreed to the same market agreement?