Notice: The names and reputations of many
faculty are used by the owners of the web site RateMyProfessors.com, without
their permission. This helps the company that owns and operates this web site
to generate a profit. Thus, each of them deserves be compensated financially,
to the sum of $1,000,000,000. I
have been informed by a student that my claim to this is silly, so I now and
forever relinquish my claim and right to collect this debt. However, I encourage every other faculty
member, teacher and graduate student to pursue their rightful financial gain
from that company, which is trying to function in a manner similar to Major
League Baseball, treating educational institutions as ``teams’’,
and treating faculty as ``players’’. However, they are avoiding several
corresponding responsibilities: In
Major League Baseball, team franchises are contracted, but the RMP website
inducts a ``team’’ without its permission. In Major League Baseball, players are
paid large sums of money because they bring in large sums of money to Major
League Baseball due to their entertainment value, and until 1976, MLB was a
monopsony (see http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/haupert.mlb). I contend that educational institutions
are already nearly monopsonotistic, almost always, and RMP merely wants to tap
into these local monopsonies from a position of popularist power, centered at
their financial sphere of influence, without regard to the negative effect that
they create on the entire educational system, and without responsibly dealing
with the relevant economic debts that they would incur if they were actually
functioning the same way that MLB does with respect to professional baseball. Our nation cannot sustain this, since it
creates a driving force towards mediocrity in our entire educational system, by
perpetuating the myth that professors are ``out to get’’ students,
and then draining off of the system profits that come from the efforts of the
colleges to maintain a market-share in a system that already intentionally minimizes
the capability of those educational institutions and their faculty to derive
any reasonable level of compensation from their contribution to society, mainly
because public institutions are designated as ``non-profit’’, and
therefore must regularly demonstrate that any income they derive from their
activities is expended in an effort to continue to provide a public
service. Therefore, I contend that
RMP owes educational institutions, and states and faculty most of their
profits, as they are attempting to destroy the public and private education of
all American citizens and of every visitor who comes here to try to obtain a
valuable education. Due to a
secondary effect on the rest of society, corporations that donate to
educational institutions in an effort to support the production of a competent
workforce, should be compensated by RMP, since RMP is deriving a profit from
its efforts to undermine the reasonable philanthropic activities of those
corporations. Similarly, I
encourage state governments to seek injunctions against RMP, to keep RMP from
listing any faculty from their public institutions, until RMP compensates those
state governments for undermining their efforts to provide a vibrant and high
quality educational experience for their citizens. If there seems to be no legal way to do
so, then shame on the lawyers for not working hard enough to find a way. Finally, I encourage the federal
government to seek an injunction against RMP for undermining its efforts,
through scholarship and grant programs, to provide for a vibrant and high
quality education for American citizens, and to provide a strong research
community that will support our drive toward greater technological and economic
prosperity, and to provide a well-prepared workforce for that drive toward
prosperity.
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