• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    You can do a lot of shit with 50 Billy in the bank. Other schools don’t have the luxury. Which is a separate and more concerning problem.

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      9 hours ago

      50 Billy

      I’m curious. Is this a new term, a thing Australians say, a reference from some media I missed, or just something that’s fun to say?

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        50 billion dollars is how much the Harvard endowment is worth. Money they can draw from for any reason including to hire the best Harvard lawyers to fight the government with or to pay ongoing costs of drinking the school of the government takes away any money they were previously giving the school. Other schools don’t have this type of money so they have to do what the government says or cease to exist.

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          Umm. I’m sorry, but it looks like we’ve got a misunderstanding? I’d simply never heard the word “billion” shortened to “billy” before, and I was asking where you got that term from. (Though now I’m even more curious what you thought I was asking.)