imagine having functionally unlimited money.
And apparently the man is worth $500 million. By ultra rich standards that’s not even wildly wealthy. How many people could somebody like Warren Buffet pay education costs for?
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.
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
That’s for 1 year’s tuition. I looked up the average for 4 years plus books, supplies, fees, etc.
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.
I would vote for Shaq for President.
You should really look into this Prince. He’s such a genuinely good person, savvy entrepreneur, hardworking individual who is genuinely interested in ‘doing good for the sake of doing good’'.
The big one for me is the Shaq Shoes. He specifically built a brand of high quality basketball shoes that don’t look like trash because kids were getting killed over Jordons and Shaqs Reebox brand were too expensive.
Brief article on it: https://www.complex.com/sneakers/a/gerald-flores/shaq-sneakers-interview
“A lady cursed me out one day at the arena. I reached in my pocket to give her $1,000 and she smacked it out of my hand,” Shaq reminisced. “She said, ‘Why doesn’t anyone try to make affordable shoes?’”
Shaq just shaqin
I mean, if the anecdote is an example of how he solves problems, maybe he’s not cut out for that. If you don’t like online classes you could just go to pretty much any other college/university instead of paying 15 times the price to a for profit diploma mill.
Wouldn’t he be distracted by interrupting fans? If it’s his friends then he can just talk to them about homework and projects.
To me sounds like a great guy, though he should have just went to a real university.
Why?
Shaq just wants the knowledge. He doesn’t need to pay for “elite” accreditation.
There is a bit of a midpoint between elite accreditation and University of Phoenix
You can’t compare accreditation and education.
I’m just repeating the phrasing in your post
You are repeating without comprehending.
Shaq was paying for personal tutoring. Elite universities sell accreditation, not education.
All universities sell accreditation
And the variance in that term was illustrated incredibly well by your first comment.
Correct. And accreditation is not important for shaq. He doesn’t need to prove he knows what was taught. He doesn’t need to be compared to his classmates.
Why go to an online university if you don’t want an online education? There are plenty of places that have in-person classes, without being elite or elite priced.
Why go to an online university if you don’t want an online education?
It’s only an online university with less than 15 students.
There are plenty of places that have in-person classes, without being elite or elite priced.
One of which was shaq’s choice.
He was probably also paying for privacy.
I had a series of classes in college with 6 students, including myself. If one of us failed, the rest wouldn’t be able to do the next course in the series. It didn’t help that the classes were some of the most difficult in our major. Barely made it through all 4 classes lmao
Sounds like some once in a lifetime team building experiences
It was honestly incredible. We all had so much time between classes, so we’d just get that classroom unlocked and hang out in there. There was a time all 6 of us decided to just have nap time. Professor walked in to all of us sleeping in makeshift beds. A couple of us even stashed blankets in that room. We really did work together on everything. Like, we’d have communal study guides and just edit it as we saw fit, then go over it as a group before tests. I was considerably shorter than everyone else, so I was the one who got to crawl under desks to plug in Ethernet cables and all that jazz.
He could have went to a state college or university system instead of the for-profit University of Phoenix.
Shaq is great but he chose an online for profit school with accreditation concerns and then paid them more money so it wasn’t online.
Yup. Essentially a degree mill
They do have some state of the art facilities and laboratories, and I do mean literally cutting edge, which makes it all the more sad that they’re so shit in every other regard.
EDIT: Might be confusing them with ASU in downtown Pheonix, idk.
Are you just shitpost commenting?? Cause asu is a legit school. University of Phoenix… not so much
It’s a good thing they’ve got people like you to shill for them.
Met Shaq for about ten seconds in Atlanta about five years ago. I’m not big into sports but knew who he was and pointed to him and said “Hey, aren’t you famous?” He laughed and said “I guess so.” We talked for a second about the city and he went on his day. My general impression was that he was a nice, down to earth guy.
“Oh my god its Kazaam!”