# People as investments?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-as-investments/672808>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 1, 2013, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-as-investments/672808 "2013-11-01T01:19:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![brettster55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brettster55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brettster55)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-as-investments/672808/21 "2013-11-10T15:41:20Z")

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Wouldn’t it be easy for corruption to exist in human investing? More so than typical stocks and bonds.

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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-as-investments/672808/22 "2013-11-11T04:52:05Z")

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> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#):
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> Good thing he wasn’t a math or economics professor. US public education spending is already 5+% of GDP (that’s not even counting private universities), and teachers are not millionaires. I find it hard to believe that we could somehow spend a smaller percentage of our national earnings and end up with wealthier teachers to boot.
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> This is like those flat tax proposals that claim we can all pay just 7% in taxes and get a higher level of government services (apparently by magic). Average college tuition to a private college is $100k+. Even if we assume that every dime goes directly to teacher’s salaries, for the 3% figure, that would have to mean that the average lifetime earning of someone with a bachelor’s degree is $3 million+ (in real dollars), which it isn’t.

He wasn’t talking about a method of funding all education. Just him. The stats for law school might be a bit different both in average lifetime earnings of the students and how many students a professor teaches per year compared to what you might get at the average elementary school.

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**Author:** ![brickbacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-as-investments/672808/23 "2013-11-11T04:59:30Z")

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So Arian Foster, the first athlete “acquired” by [Fantex](http://abcnews.go.com/Business/houston-texan-arian-fosters-injury-affect-ipo/story?id=20776195), is now on IR and is scheduled to have season-ending back surgery. Additionally, the second player they signed, Vernon Davis, was concussed today. Probably not a good idea to invest in football players.

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