“Oh, by the way, one “sucker” out of every four dies from choice. Cool, right…”

Perfect! I couldn’t have said it better myself.

IE the rich consume much more then they produce, and the poor produce much more then they consume. There are always exceptions, but most of the time that holds true.

As an employee at a drug store for 3 years making 8000 dollars a year, I almost certainly produced (or provided service) more then I consumed.

I’ll let you have the last word on this but please hold it until you’ve past the milestone in your life where you’ve produced more than you’ve consumed. Good luck. Good fortune. God speed.

Neonidas

As for “competitive” learning, I never said the system was perfect. In fact it’s in shambles. How can you consider education competitive when certain schools get vastly more funding then others? And don’t even get me started on the No Child Left Behind Act. *gags*

If you are somehow still trying to compare an education to monetary wealth, then you are a tool.

Also, if I can’t reach a box in the stock room because I’m too short, I ask someone to help me. If that is lazy, then little people must be the laziest people on earth.

But yet again, any form of logic has apparently escaped your grasp.

If the Kennedy’s and Clintons are the lions of the left, then that sucker Limbaugh and Hannity are your lions of the right. The massive generalizations in here border on comma inducing.

I’d wager that your stats prof was speechless at the breathtakingly beautiful example of how nature abhors a vacuum and anything can fill and empty head. Grades are the measure of competitive learning for a purpose. Otherwise GPA, degrees and awards are pointless. So don’t try to make a argument on that. That duck don’t swim. If the point of educating is to improve the individual what does Academia do with the failure? Does your institution remediate the failure to point of ensuring his permanent success in the job world? (I’d submit that most of those failures remain in Academia as department chairs.)

But of course at this point in your tender development you’d think nothing of asking a future co-worker to do his job and your’s also. That is not surprising to me. Though you will probably be surprised that your co-worker will comment on how little your eduction helped you perform your own job function. You can be sure that your annual performance review (particularly in the professional track) will well document his capacities very well. I wonder if he will share his performance raises with you?

I’ll pass your view on inheritance and stealing intelligence along to those Lions of the Left such as the Kennedy’s and the Clintons.

In a classroom setting, the point of educating is to improve the individual student. In order to evaluate progress, each student must submit separate work and tests (If you want to know how Johnny is doing, you don’t have Steve take a test for him).

In the job world, I may ask for help to finish a project at my work. In class, I cannot ask a classmate to help do my homework or take my tests. I know that I need to retain the information taught and the only way I can do that is by doing my own work.

As said before, you don’t inherit intelligence or education. I cannot purchase or steal intelligence from anyone else.

The comparison is ludicrous at best.

I’m not a socialist or a conservative but even I can see the difference between distributing money and grades. People get by just fine without a fancy education, without money you don’t get far. You don’t inherit grades from your parents, but you can be a lazy bum and still be rich if you are lucky enough to be born into a rich family. I believe people who are active and look for work deserve unemployment benefits, I believe sick/disabled/mentally challenged people deserve to eat and have a place to stay, I believe kids deserve to be treated by a doctor if they are ill etc. These things cost money and I’m happy to pay my share.