Yes, exactly, this is the reason the game (a random walk) takes forever to "end", because the kids try to get more than their share, lose some in the process, then try to get back what they had and realize they're satisfied with what they had initially, then stop playing. All the kids are happy, no kids are crying. It's not Poker where one person ends up cleaning everyone else out, that's not the point. It's to teach the dictum that "Poverty is a wheel that revolves in the world."
Ooh yes, let's address next how US top universities are all profit machines incentivized to take as many foreigners as possible, driving up the tuition they can charge so US citizens can't afford to get degrees. Let's do talk about how if you get a part time job to be able to pay for college then they yank your financial aid.
While foreigners definitely are a cash cow, I think you'll find in STEM fields most foreign PhD students are not paying tuition, but are instead funded by US grants.
As for the cost of tuition, there are many, many reasons, and I suspect if you did a PCA, you'll find "raising tuition to milk foreigners" to be of minimal impact.
In my state, for example, a local university publicized their finances going back decades, and the increase in tuition has been mirrored by a drop in state support per student. Overall the university is not making more money per student than they were 30 years ago - the only thing that changed is the entity making the payments.
I posted the same news 24 days ago, it got downvote-brigaded by malicious actors (at the same time they were upvote-brigading fake news that he lost InfoWars to The Onion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42160692
Right, the author skipped right over human-readable TSV files which play nicely with sed/awk/grep/sort pipelines, and are supported by all CSV parsers and spreadsheet software.
TSV is also my go-to when mucking around on the command line. Perfect for noodling with data before you have to put together an Excel file to show to management.
