“I felt that being screwed on camera was the best way to avoid being screwed by the higher education system.”
So declared Belle Knox to a room full of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Tuesday night in a talk designed to address the skyrocketing costs of college.
Knox, whose real name is Miriam Weeks, is an adult-film star and sophomore at Duke University. She gave a 20-minute lecture on how government subsidies increase tuition prices, followed by a question-and-answer session. More than 100 students attended the event, hosted by Young Americans for Liberty.
“When the government gets involved in things, it distorts the natural incentives and largely ignores scarcity, and these distortions cause rising prices,” she said.
That’s what led her to the porn industry, she said.
“I was 18 years old and I had a choice: take out over four years around $240,000 in loans or finance my education out of pocket,” Weeks said.
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