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> amateur architect designs for dorm rooms (basically prisons) on universities

I hope UCSB backed out of building one of these monstrosities.

"Public policy graduate student Luiza Macedo didn’t see the sun for a full week when she had to isolate in her room at Munger Residence due to a Covid-19 scare."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/business/munger-residences-mi...

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Yea, it's pretty sickening. It's pretty sad that in the U.S., someone else's money can buy the government, your education, and how you literally live, all in the way that that someone else thinks it should be done but wouldn't do themself.

I think the phrase you are looking for is "beggars can't be choosers".

Because students and non-billionaires are beggars?

Students pay several tens of thousands of dollars to go to universities these days. That's not remotely begging.

The begger here is UCSB. They had to take Munger's money and his design to build more housing.

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