Many people would probably agree with you but my personal unsubstantiated opinion is that both can be bought. Want good schools? Hire good teachers (and bring in a class of workers who care about their kids' educations and help their children succeed). Want culture? Hire musicians, artists, etc. Other natural culture will come by building the right kind of environment (see The Timeless Way of Building) and bringing in a bunch of talented people with cash to spend to generate the kind of environment they want by paying for bands to play, artists to make art, baristas, bartenders, etc.
Re: Olin College, I don't often hear it as often as Stanford probably because of the relative size of the marketing budget, but the software engineers who come out of Olin College are probably not paid so significantly less that a 30-40% reduction in rent wouldn't compensate.
Re: $Billions... Or a couple thousand software engineers organized to invest together.
Re: "You simply cannot build some of those things." Challenge accepted! Er, well, but I'm short about a billion dollars in order to attempt it. Know anybody who can help with that?
People can and do try to build good schools with cold hard cash. However... when was the last time you heard Olin College mentioned in the same breath as Stanford?
It's much, much easier said than done. It's still the work of decades and absurd amounts of money. Every freaking city of notable size in America has tried to dump money into getting their own local startup ecosystem going, and most of them have gone a lot of nowhere.
It can't buy everything, but if you're rich you get most of the remainder for free. I mean, you can't buy everlasting youth or other medical/physical current impossibilities, but I don't think that was what you were thinking.
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If by "expensive" you mean "billions"... with profitability not nearly so assured.
You cannot simply build some of those things. Culture and good schools take decades to build.
Many people would probably agree with you but my personal unsubstantiated opinion is that both can be bought. Want good schools? Hire good teachers (and bring in a class of workers who care about their kids' educations and help their children succeed). Want culture? Hire musicians, artists, etc. Other natural culture will come by building the right kind of environment (see The Timeless Way of Building) and bringing in a bunch of talented people with cash to spend to generate the kind of environment they want by paying for bands to play, artists to make art, baristas, bartenders, etc.
Re: Olin College, I don't often hear it as often as Stanford probably because of the relative size of the marketing budget, but the software engineers who come out of Olin College are probably not paid so significantly less that a 30-40% reduction in rent wouldn't compensate.
Re: $Billions... Or a couple thousand software engineers organized to invest together.
Re: "You simply cannot build some of those things." Challenge accepted! Er, well, but I'm short about a billion dollars in order to attempt it. Know anybody who can help with that?
People can and do try to build good schools with cold hard cash. However... when was the last time you heard Olin College mentioned in the same breath as Stanford?
It's much, much easier said than done. It's still the work of decades and absurd amounts of money. Every freaking city of notable size in America has tried to dump money into getting their own local startup ecosystem going, and most of them have gone a lot of nowhere.
Average starting salaries:
The first is from (2010-2013) while the second is (2011-2014) which explains why Olin reports slightly higher numbers.[1]http://www.nerdwallet.com/nerdscholar/grad_surveys/top-salar... [2]http://www.olin.edu/content/results/
Money can't buy everything
It can't buy everything, but if you're rich you get most of the remainder for free. I mean, you can't buy everlasting youth or other medical/physical current impossibilities, but I don't think that was what you were thinking.
How to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM