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Zuckerberg hospital

jeudi 6 décembre 2018 à 01:00

Some in San Francisco do not like the fact that the city's general hospital has been renamed after Zuckerberg, and one official has proposed to change the name back.

I think that the practice of naming institutions and buildings after donors is in general a form of decadence, regardless of who the donors are.

Whether the donors have a bad influence on the organization's activities is a different question: sometimes that happens, but not always. I don't think Zuckerberg's money would tend to corrupt the activity of a hospital — as far as I know, he has no special interests regarding hospitals. However, his money or Facebook's money might corrupt other kinds of organizations where they do have interests at stake.

The Gates Foundation's money has served to impose his policy ideas on education in the US.