Few things. GPA's are capped. I can't invest my GPA to make more GPA. I can't buy/sell/trade my GPA, except at a set amount for a single item... Wait don't teachers already redistribute GPA? Isn't it called a curve? Doesn't it already force people to the average?
Its about hate envy and greed. If the wealthy keeps their wealth, they are "greedy". If they have it stolen from them by the Government then it suddenly becomes "compassion". Create a need, fill the need, then tell the brainless who you used to filled the need, they cannot survive without the creators of the need. IE; the left. It's all about buying votes, enslaving people and brainwashing those people into believing they can never free themselves from it..
Wait until these Children get out in the real world.
Most of the high earners... small business owners work twice as hard to get where they are in life... They worked twice as hard in college and work twice as hard in the real world. Many have risked everything they had to start a company, worked sometimes for years without an income to finally see the payoff.
Why is there so much hate for the wealthy? Realize that the wealthy provide substantial donations to many charitable organizations, not to mention the millions of jobs they create. The system is truly broken when I actually dread getting a raise because it puts me in a higher tax bracket.
I've never been employed by a poor person, have you?
I find this video to be a little erroneous. For one, a person's ability to earn a good GPA is entirely based on that person's own performance, their ability to earn money not so much. Everyone who goes to school can earn an A if they work hard enough, but not everyone can be rich. For instance, the CEO of a company relies on his employees in order to keep the business afloat and the money rolling in. If everyone was a rich CEO there would be no one to perform the lower, less paying jobs (cont)
@BeekersSqueakers thats not exactly true, the vast majority of college courses i ever took (at Rutgers) were graded on a curve. On a fair curve, most people get C's and those who got A's are offset by those who got F's. It can thus be said that those who got A's got them at the expensive of those who got F's. With the economy, when someone creates wealth it is *not* at the expense of someone else becoming poor. The size of the 'pie' is not fixed.
@Xaanix73 I wasn't necessarily meaning that someone would become poor as a result of another person becoming rich. The point I was trying to make is that those who are rich depend on those who are poor for their wealth. Employers (rich) need their employees (poor) to stay within a certain income bracket otherwise the employees would not work that particular job and with no workers the employer's business would be ruined.
(cont) and then the company would cease to function and no one would be able to become rich. You can also look at it this way. There is an unlimited amount of grades that a school can issue, so theoretically every student can earn an A. However, the amount of money in circulation is limited, so for ever dollar you take for yourself that is one less for someone else to take. And the more you take the less there is for everyone else.
@bomac10000 Not necessarily. The A students don't rely on the failing students in order to get their A's. However, the rich do rely on the poor for their wealth, so no matter how well someone's career performance is, not everyone will be able to become rich.
How about you make it actually realistic. Give the students with the higher grades (or whose parents earned higher grades when they were at college) access to better resources, better library facilities, internet databases etc, and give the rest a notebook and a pen and tell them to go do the same work. While a few extremely lucky ones will be able to earn higher grades, thereby gaining better resources, the vast majority will languish forever earning lower and lower grades. Is that fair?
GPA is not finite like money is and there is no way to invest GPA points to increase your overall GPA. If you look at the sociological studies on a person's class, they show that people born in a class generally tend to stay there. The American dream of going from nothing to a millionaire barely exists. Therefore the expression, "the rich stay rich" is true with money but not with GPA. That is the main difference here, having a high GPA does not help you get a high GPA in the future.
A higher GPA will get you more money. I'm not naive. I'm in HR. Sorry but it's a fact. Why would I hire a 2.5 GPA when I can get a 4.0? 4.0 means they are smarter and usually work harder.
People can make their own opportunities ... as long as DEMS, progressives and liberals don't redistribute it for them.
@TheCitizen4truth listen to this idiot munky man,,this is a "physician" in today's society,,not a freaking clue,,but sure has great ideas on how you should live what energy you choose etc etc..no wonder our world is so fucked up..ooops I swore
@wogdoggy I don't want to tell you what to do...I just want to convince you that the current way is unsustainable and one day, capitalism will be completely discarded and laughed at by future generations.
@wogdoggy I'm not crying for a handout...I'm crying for equality. There's such a big difference, and you, like many can't seem to grasp it. When people are born with nothing, they're in trouble from the get go. To me, lack of money is simply a symptom of inequality. Money is not the answer to these problems, evening the playing field is...and yes, sometimes that cost money, but if it means that poor children have a better chance to succeed then, i'm all for it. All men are created equal.
@munkyusm save your BULLSHIT equality for the liberals.you cannot LEGISLATE equality..know why bubblehead? because people ARE NOT EQUAL.the kid whose parents have less money will be able to attend the same school that a SMARTER person for LESS money..is that equal? rewarding the dumber student with less tuition than the smarter one JUST becasue he makes more money? liberalism is a sickness ..seek help kid
@wogdoggy When I say equality, I mean in opportunity. Do you think that a black kid with a 140 i.q. raised by uneducated, poverty stricken people is likely to be as "smart" or get as good an education as a white upper middle class kid with an i.q. of 100? Probably not, so let's just blame his parents for being uneducated and poor. So, we can admit it's not the kid's fault, but when he grows up and has a kid of his own and does the same thing as his parents, we blame him...it makes no sense.
@munkyusm with a 140 iq he ALREADY is as smart..SHOULD i hire him just because of THAT? what about his tats and piercings ,should I disregard that when employiong someone..how did your HERO obama do it how do MILLIONS of blacks do it? handouts? fuck no idiot..that wanted it and took the HAND UP not the hand out..are you sure you are a doctor? what school graduated you? was "common sense a prerequisite? i gusee not..your hung up on equal,you want equal ameica aint the place its a cream to the top
@munkyusm people make their own opportunities dumbass..theres an old saying and its common sense so you may never heard of it but in life sometimes its not what you know its who you know.geez go figure life isnt fair..I should have your stuff to help level the playing field..
@wogdoggy I really don't think you've listened to anything I've actually said and thought about it. I really think you're only regurgitating 50 years of moronic republican babble. I've seen both sides objectively, you clearly haven't. You only see the world from your own perspective and this is called ignorance. But, you can be blissfully ignorant if you want...it'll make it more painful to watch as the world shifts more and more towards the left. Also, stop cursing so much, you look dumb.
@munkyusm yeah you think you can legislate equality ,you are wrong.you think the minorities dont have a "equal" chance you are wrong.I explained to you how the lower grades and less incomed student attended the same school for thousands less than my son's boy.you ignore.when someone doesnt agree with your lioberal idea of "utopia" you call them ignorant when in fact YOU are the dumbfuck with zero common sense..mr physician please save it "shmuck" oh and btw america will shift big like midterms
@wogdoggy Wow, we're not talking about utopia...there will never be utopia. But there's a much better way than watching 10% of the world's population own 90% of the world's wealth. 10 corporations are in the top 20 largest economies on the planet. If you think that's okay, then I have to question your sanity. It's simply not okay. Wealth and resources belong to people, not corporations and the rich.
@munkyusm first you say when i mean equality I MEAN opportunity then the real liberal surfaces to the top,I knew you couldnt help yourself and here it is..this is LIBERALISM I forget wealth and belongs to the people NOT the RICH and coprporations shouldnt be wealthy or make money because to a dumbfuck liberal like yourself the GOVT should legislate equality..lets face it nimmy YOU are the typical liberal THINKS EVERYONE sgould be ENTITLED to a guy's wealth who earns it..you have brain cancer .
@munkyusm Wealth and resources belong to people, not corporations and the rich. LOL..now thats FUCKING about the dumbest thing I ever heard,,wealth belongs to "PEOPLE" not the RICH,,cause lets face it those rich guys arent fucking PEOPLE,,and those rich corporations THAT SUPPLY JOBS those arent fucking people those are ALIEN MONKEYS,,,do you have any freaking clue how stupid you sound EVEN without the potty mouth..LOL...maybe you should tryu a new approach.no rich giy no greedy corprationor race
@wogdoggy Sigh, take "people" literally why don't you? Here's a different way to look at it - Technology will soon advance to the point where it's cheaper to build robots and computers to do almost every task a human being can do, and they will do it better. There will no doubt be less jobs. Say it gets to the point where every corporation fires basically everyone. What happens then?
@skanky87 Exactly my point...the system is a pointless ponzi scheme that requires a never ending process of cyclical consumption. Look up how fractional reserve works. In reality, if robots were able to produce everything, everything could produced in such abundance so cheaply that it could theoretically be free. In that case...why not communism???
i love listening to liberal say it isnt the same..BUT you can BET YOUR ASS its the same..its something that is WORKED for..these pimpled faced indoctrinated morons have never worked a day in their fucking lives..they are professional leeches only working for grades,,IT is EXACTLY the same..only a brain dead liberal would think otherwise
@wogdoggy So, by your logic (as applied to the economy and politics), we shouldn't be giving assistance to ANYONE under ANY circumstance? Not even mentally handicap people? If you're going to imply that we think everyone should be given the exact same amount of money across the board, then you're open to the reverse assumption that you want the handicap and physically disabled to be left homeless and to ultimately starve to death because they can't work.
@munkyusm heres some real easy logic even a liberal might be able to grasp..ready? I have NO PROBLEM helping the helpless,BUT helping the CLUELESS is another story..dude you are overmatched here ...lol
Wow, this is the dumbest analogy I've ever seen. Money and GPA are not alike in any way other than the idea that you work to attain them. If these college kids inherited their GPA from their parents, it would make a little sense, but even then it's retarded. In real life, everyone doesn't start out with a million dollars and then we let performance show how much they make over time. In reality, the poorest start with a "0.0 gpa" and the richest start with a "4.0 gpa"...just think about that.
@munkyusm save your liberal bullshit for your fellow liberal idiots...the richest start with a 4.0..what a moron..I thought about it and you are an idiot
@munkyusm they must WORK for their gpa which shows their refusal to give it up.thes kids never WORKED for their money yet so its easy for them to say money redistibution is ok..thats the point..when i hear the rich guy starts out with a 4.0 and the poor guy has a 0.0..my liberal idiot warning light goes off..
@wogdoggy So, yes or no, do you agree that someone who has $0 to their name would have to work a hell of alot harder to make a million dollars than someone who has $900,000 to their name? Furthermore, do you think the guy with $900,000 would even have to WORK to get to a million? Couldn't he just put that cash in the bank and let interest accrue the other $100k without even having to WORK? This is economics, this isn't even politics...wtf with the liberal remarks?
@munkyusm when you go to school everybody starts with the same clean slate.the point is this is something these pimple faced morons have to earn thats why they think its unfair to share grades,,these twits havent even had to work yet to EARN a buck thats why it is EASY for them to say its different with money and success just because someone has 900 k and somone has shit means nothing to the point..I'm pretty much through with you now..carry on stupid
@wogdoggy That's the point I was making...everyone starts with a 4.0 (i.e. "a million dollars"). You basically just admitted that it's completely illogical to compare money to gpa. Name calling does nothing to actually solve any problems in this world, it takes rational thought to do that. You clearly don't have that ability to do that yet. So, you're correct in saying that this conversation can go no further. Your understanding of economics and society are very naive. Educate yourself.
@munkyusm everyone starts with a CLEAN zero.when the kids had to earn it they didnt want to share it,,MONEY was ok to share..WHY IS THAT MORON? because they DIDNT HAVE TO EARN THAT.dADDY HAS provided FOR THEM THEY NEVER WORKED FOR A BUCK so IT WAS ok TO SHARE THAT WAS different..i;VE BEEN TRADING ON THE CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE SINCE 1979 .its good to know A guy like you can educate me about economics...I'll stick to name calling....YOU MORON!
@wogdoggy Just because you're a chrony for this fucked up capitalist system that we live in doesn't mean you understand the first thing about socio-economics. And don't pretend to. You've jacked off to Milton Friedman, and that's about it. You most likely believe in social darwinism and that you are somehow smarter than all the poor people and that you succeded because of i't. You can't fathom that a kid born in the ghetto may not get a good education and may not have a chance to "succeed".
@munkyusm lol..what an idiot you are,,and your dad paid for the education you recieved..what a waste.the commie public school kid..HATES corporations BUT doesnt complain too much when he asks his dad for a 20.even though dad works for exxon ..exon is the bad guy..even though exon has mad it possible for thousands of workers to support their families..this dolt would rather put his faith in the educated left..lotsa kids have risen from the ghetto,and it wasnt because they got a bigger handout.lol
@munkyusm whenever io hear this fucked p capitalist system you can bet your ass there is an UNDERACHIEVER complaining about it..capitalism provides the HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING FOR ALL..tell me what third world country you admire so much has a higher standard of living than us...you carck me up kid..how the fuck you could let some moron profeesor brain wash you is beyond belief..you truly are pathetic..this is my last post to you..now go get a twenty from the old man and complain about equalit
@wogdoggy Simply because we have a higher standard of living does not make us better than them. You do realize that most of those third world countries are on the capitalist system right? This is the exact point I make. We're the rich country, and it's easy to stay rich when you have money. The poor countries will stay poor, and any rise in their economy will come at the expense of ours. As China gets bigger, we get smaller...that's how capitalism works. Btw I'm a physician.
@munkyusm really what makes us better than them? the poor coutries of this world are not capitalistic..china's standard of living is SHIT,,you should know that..the poor counties stay poor because of dictators you stupey..look at all the mideast oil wealth YET their standard of living is SHIT,,can you still blame capitalism for thier piss poor standard of living.a physician with zero common sense? scoring a 100 in "operation" doesnt make you a physician
@wogdoggy So let me get this right...you're saying that if every country was just like America, then the whole world would be rich? It's completely illogical to think that. This global system we're on now, for China, India, or Brazil to grow it requires that America shrinks. America just so happened to grow and force everyone else to shrink for a long time, but it's starting to snap back. When we shrink far down the list, maybe then you will understand inequality. You'll blame Obama though.
Money is a means and not and end - The government doesn't give money directly to the poor but uses it for public services and public goods.
You can't extract GPA from a high GPA student and use it for public services ( aka things made out of GPA ) while you can take money from high income people and use it for building defence, law and order and other public goods.
@Selwich So the Government does not give temporary assistance directly to poor people?
You can extract GPA from one student and apply it to another students GPA thus providing a means to the student who is GPA poor, helping them to arrive an end which is their degree.
"Probably like freakin millionaires or something?" Um, you mean, small businesses? School administrators? Thats whose in the top 5%. Millionaires and billionaires dont pay income tax, they pay capital gains or passive income tax. You have to have a JOB to pay income tax. Donald trump, for example doesnt have a job. he gives OTHER PEOPLE jobs. so you wont be taxing him more, youll be taxing his secretary higher rates.
Haha! "It's not the same because that stuff belongs to MEEEEE!!" lmao
Great stuff! Maybe you didn't change their minds right then and there but I'm sure you planted the seeds in quite a few minds so that as soon as they hit the real world the truth of your idea will cause many an epiphany! :)
@eluminated Money and GPA are not alike in any way other than the idea that you work to attain them. If these college kids inherited their GPA from their parents, it would make a little sense, but even then it's retarded. In real life, everyone doesn't start out with a million dollars and then we let performance show how much they make over time. In reality, the poorest start with a "0.0 gpa" and the richest start with a "4.0 gpa"...just think about that.
@munkyusm And why do you have to work to attain wealth and GPA's? Because they are both objects of value and THAT is the point of the survey. Secondly, wealth redistribution doesn't only effect those who were born into money. Was everyone who is rich born into it? Is it not true that some have become wealthy purely because of their own hard work, dedication and ingenuity? Wealth redistribution doesn't account for HOW you get your money, so the analogy in the vid stands and your analogy fails.
@eluminated The point I'm making is the analogy is completely false on the grounds that ALL STUDENTS ARE TREATED EQUALLY. All students are given a 4.0 at the start, and based on their performance can either keep it or lose it. In reality, humans are not all given an equal start. Some start with two crackhead parents, and some start with the rockefellers for parents. Is it right to say that the kid born to the rockefellers DESERVES a better life than the crack baby? Of course not.
@munkyusm But you're claiming you should decide who "deserves" what. The poor person automatically deserves a portion of the wealthy person's property simply for having been born poor? That's absurd and completely disregards the potential for upward mobility in a free society. Was Oprah born wealthy? Was Bill Gates? According to your philosophy YOUR wealth should be redistributed to the 90% of people on this planet who don't have your standard of living. Do YOU deserve it more than they do?
@eluminated Absolutely, I would be fine today...with giving up 90% of my "wealth". All I truly need is food, shelter, and preferably cigarettes. This is the ultimate point I make. These are basic needs, and yet we want to deny these to people all around the world simply because we want more. It's unethical. Furthermore, you talk about redistributing wealth as if it hasn't be done already. 400 Americans own more than the 155 million poorest combined. Wealth has already been redistributed.
@munkyusm Well then put your money where your mouth is! Don't say you'll 'be fine' with it, DO IT!
And who is "denying" them anything? Because people in the western world live decent lives that denies decent lives for the people in the third world? How?.. If you actually look past your rhetoric and analyse WHY most of those people are poor you'll find it's because they live under despots and dictators who steal the resources of the nation. And ALL of those dictators are leftists!
@eluminated You clearly don't understand capitalism. It is a fundamental requirement of capitalism that there are haves and have nots. Do you honestly think that if all the world was just like America, everyone would be happy? Of course not! Furhtermore, We have "despots" STEALING the resources of the nation, leaving millions poor. You never responded to this statement, but 400 people OWN MORE than half of the U.S. population! And this is in the free market...
@munkyusm I didn't respond to your "400 people" claim because it's nonsense. But even if it were true, what difference does it make? Do they not employ people or buy things? If you want to get your hands on rich people's money then do something useful so maybe you can EARN IT! That's what the 'haves and have nots' means! You have a product or service that someone wants/needs and they will voluntarily give you money for it. And then you can turn around and do the same.. and on and on.
@munkyusm Secondly, YOU clearly don't understand capitalism. The system we've existed under for the past 100 years has been Corporatism, political cronyism and the welfare/nanny state - and when that system fails you blame the free market and Capitalism?? The former is the antithesis of the latter and you apparently don't understand the reality of the world you live in because you don't seem to know the difference between the two.
@RabidKoala Money and GPA are not alike in any way other than the idea that you work to attain them. If these college kids inherited their GPA from their parents, it would make a little sense, but even then it's retarded. In real life, everyone doesn't start out with a million dollars and then we let performance show how much they make over time. In reality, the poorest start with a "0.0 gpa" and the richest start with a "4.0 gpa"...just think about that. I think it went over your head...
@munkyusm You put a nice spin on theft. Redistribution IS theft, and you advocate theft. If it is my money through earnings, investment or inheritance, it is mine not the property of you or the government. In America we do not have equality of outcome, nor should we. You are free to succeed or fail on your own merits, or lack thereof.
@RabidKoala In school, everyone starts with a 4.0. So everyone's on an even playing field from the get go. This is the point I'm making. If my dad gave me $600k, I can put it in an account and let it accrue interest and get to a $1mil WITHOUT DOING ANY WORK. Imagine a person with $10 dollars to their name trying to get to a $1 mil. It takes infinitely more work. Why is it that when rich people don't do ANY WORK and make money it's okay? You're clearly the one who's putting a spin on things.
@RabidKoala cont. Furthermore, I love how conservatives have somehow convinced themselves that they're in the same boat as the 400 richest people in America who have as much wealth as 155 million people combined. You're not in that boat, and we're not advocating "stealing" from you.
I'm amazed (I shouldn't be, but I am) at the disconnect. They don't want their grades redistributed because it affects them, but the "rich" are those other people so it's okay when it's a faceless victim. "But I worked hard for these grades." Exactly, which is why those who earned their money should keep their money.
@superjae5 Money and GPA are not alike in any way other than the idea that you work to attain them. If these college kids inherited their GPA from their parents, it would make a little sense, but even then it's retarded. In real life, everyone doesn't start out with a million dollars and then we let performance show how much they make over time. In reality, the poorest start with a "0.0 gpa" and the richest start with a "4.0 gpa"...just think about that.
Since I can hire others to help me build my wealth, and since in this video's analogy Wealth = GPAs, I should be able to hire a team of other students to do my schoolwork for me. Anyone have a problem with that?
It just shows yet ANOTHER failure of LIBERALISM..its pretty much that easy,,BUT the sad part is look at the cash these poor parents paid for liberal indoctrination...get on your kids and teach them the sickness of the liberal mindset.
@wogdoggy Money and GPA are not alike in any way other than the idea that you work to attain them. If these college kids inherited their GPA from their parents, it would make a little sense, but even then it's retarded. In real life, everyone doesn't start out with a million dollars and then we let performance show how much they make over time. In reality, the poorest start with a "0.0 gpa" and the richest start with a "4.0 gpa"...just think about that.
None of these people with 4.0 GPA deserve it if they can't figure out it's the same as paying taxes. Why do you get a 4.0 GPA? to get a better job? Then you probably will make more money and hence pay more in taxes. The tax increase are for those making over $200,000 not just millionaires. In reality, Millionaires will not pay more - they typically pay the same amount in taxes - no matter what the rate is.
It's an exact same thing. Earning money is exactly like earning a 4.0 GPA.
@TheCitizen4truth You really think a 4.0 means you make more money when you get out? Sounds pretty naive. I would say that the people with charisma, character, creativity, and a 2.5 gpa will make more money in the long run than a robot that churns out a 4.0 gpa. GPA is not indicative of income, furthermore income is not indicative of success.
@digitalArtform : Likely you do inherit your parent's GPA because it your parents had good GPAs, odds are they are earning more money and thereby are affording you educational opportunities and academic discipline that likely translate into your having a higher GPA than someone who's parents didn't have such high GPAs. And yes, grades are like wealth. Higher income is the reward for hard work. A higher GPA is the reward for hard work. It's all rather academic.
@rippinsteo Not 'likely you do.' Inheriting a literal GPA from your parents' transcript to yours is either a formal, sanctioned program - or it is not.
in a large sense many do "inherit" their GPA from their parents...... if they were fortunate enough to be born to parents who valued education and had the means to provide a proper pre-schooling experience for them, and then to send them (in many cases) to private schools, that would give them the upper hand over other, less advantaged individuals
@coverscape The only sense that matters is the literal sense. When you inherit money you get money. So I should be able to go to my school and say 'I'd like my father's A in Organic Chemistry, please. Thank you.' And actually get it.
This is great! It truly shows how if certain mandates benefit oneself, we are ok with them, however when the mandate affects us we tend to say "No Way! I worked hard for that". The reason why people are trying to get a 4.0 is to either get into a better Graduate School. The reason why they want to go to a better Graduate School is so they could earn more money. By redistributing the grades it affects them, so they don't want it. Nice video. Nice parallel.
Socialism hurts the working poor more than anyone else. I'm 31 years old with a college degree and I've spent most of my post-college decade making less than $11/hr. but I would sooner eat a bullet than beg for the state to rob from someone else on my behalf. Socialism and globalism (internationalism) are the problems. Nationalism is the solution. War production would be our saving grace as it was in the 20th century. World War III is almost upon us and we're wallowing in weakness and apathy.
@IggyHazard "I've spent most of my post-college decade making less than $11/hr. but I would sooner eat a bullet than beg for the state to rob from someone else on my behalf." Good man. You have my respect. We need more men like you.
Students that cheats or buy notes should give up points, as the corrupt rich people should give up some of their money. Being poor is not synonymous with being ignorant or illiterate, education is not always free for many people, being poor is not optional. Just think about the thousands of people who born in extreme poverty in places like Haiti, it would be fair to say that they dont deserve to receive some of those who squander their money on luxuries? People die everyday of hunger!
@BigfootWRL I actually do every now and then, even though my money is pretty limited. I really hope that people who wasted their money on unnecessary luxuries also have a little bit of consciousness to help the ones who really need it, specially the one who earn their money with corrupted acts. Is not for brilliant people to actually realize of that.
@creoloko The reason they're poor is because their governments (mostly Marxist or Maoist) keep them poor. It's the same thing Stalin did to Ukraine in the 1920s. State-sponsored famine as a means of social control. The West sends aid to the sufferers but the oppressive whores of the state confiscate it. Some cultures deserve to be exterminated because they're based on oppression. In that case, Exterminance becomes Liberation. Hail Western imperialism! Hail Exterminance!
ummmm...people EARN their GPA's. Very few rich people "earned" the grossly disproportionate income they benefit from, for various reasons. For one, many people secure high-paying careers through connections, and are no more meritorious than those lacking the connection. Secondly, society rewards certain tasks in a manner that is grossly non-commenserate, if nit ass-backwards in many cases, e.g., teachers making 40k while people dribbling basketball make millions. This vid is a SPECIOUS ANALOGY.
@hatchbx How is it that you know whether people earn their large income or not? Society includes you. What you and other leftists need to think less about is the difference between rich and poor, and think more about the ways in which other people's financial success benefits you. Rich people cannot, outside of illegal activity, do anything with their money that does not benefit other people. I
@hatchbx If the rich person buys stuff, someone else earns it by selling it, someone else by manufacturing it, etc. If the rich person saves his/her money, it is invested somewhere, and a business will end up using it to create more business which will employ people. If the rich person stuffs all his or her money into the mattress, it still does not hurt anyone, since it removes money from circulation, thereby increasing the buying power of everyone else's dollars.
We're doomed. This is the cream of America's crop?
The Marxist Professors have done their jobs well, comrade. Just wait till these dolts see 25%+ of their first paycheck get taken away. If they can even find a job.
Clearly these students haven't yet worked a job. Hopefully their attitudes will change when they start a real job. And maybe they will mature and change for the better even more when they become parents. That did it for me. Love what you're doing Alyssa, and VERY encouraged that your generation has some intelligent, thinking, mature young people stepping up to the plate to right some long overdue wrongs. Good job!
@winston2015 just stumbled across this comment, and I know it's been a while since it was posted, but you do realize Warren Buffet pays himself a salary of $100,000 per year don't you? He also still lives in the house that he bought in 1958 for $31,500.
The millionaires aren't going to miss their money, so redistribution of wealth is OK? I guarantee you when you tax 35% of their income, they're gonna miss it.
America is the sole bastion for those who strive for greatness. If you can't handle allowing others their achievement for lack of your own, please find a country more to your way of thinking and stop trying to destroy mine.
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This is silly. Wealth redistribution is the Red Herring of our time.
If you want to make this a realistic comparison, you would make it such that a .001 reduction in GPA from someone with a 4.0 (to a 3.999) means a full point increase for someone with a 1.0 (to a 2.0).
Furthermore, in school, you have equal opportunity to excel. You aren't ever in danger of someone kicking you out of class so they can get a higher GPA. In life, you can be fired for the sole reason of greed.
@ZamielForte Communist BS. You arent going to be fired because of greed. You are going to be fired because you arent working hard enough. You are not making them enough money to justify paying you. Alyssa here made a perfect comparison, and it shows how deeply rooted communism is on college campuses.
Bunk. People get fired all the time to pad bottom lines, at least when CEOs aren't cooking books. And who decides how much "enough money" is? You might be making them double your salary in profit, but maybe they don't think its enough, and want triple returns. If a job doesn't make profit, fine, cut them. But all too often, people get dumped in order to reduce the number of people being paid, AND instead of hiring someone new, they just make everyone else do more work with no extra pay.
@ZamielForte I'm sorry you got fired from McDonalds for sneezing in the mayonaisse, but the simple fact is if a person is making a business money, they arent going to get cut unless they are underperforming in comparison to their coworkers.
@89Sunbird And I'm glad you've lived a charmed life where you've always gotten what you've wanted and everyone has bowed to you. The real world's just outside, and you should visit sometime.
Businesses fire people all the time to make more profit. Big businesses downsize because they need bigger dividends. After all, why pay 3 people for 120 hours work, when you can pay 2 people for that same 120 hours? And if they complain, fire them!
btw, I've never been fired from any job I've ever held.
@ZamielForte This is why we need to stop hampering business from creating more jobs. Liberal policies constantly harm small businesses, who are the ones creating more jobs. Leftists also create a poor economic climate by adding to the cost of doing business, which makes our labor costs extremely high. It's a productivity issue. Because our labor costs are high, large businesses go away from the US, to where labor costs are less. Other countries don't import our goods bc of our huge costs.
@ZamielForte The only reason they can do these things is because there is an oversupply of labor and an undersupply of jobs. Democrats have largely created this scenario because they constantly demonize business and wealth creation. Actually, they are not interested in creating wealth, merely in redistributing it. After you have spent the past 60 years redistributing it, there isn't anything left. You actually have to create wealth and create jobs. This is what they don't grasp.
@89Sunbird Many people are fired for no reason having to do with productivity. You're rather naive. Anyone over 45 is likely to lose a job, as long as health insurance is involved directly with employers. And, our culture is so youth-obsessed, we do not value anyone we think is "old". The real discrimination in this nation is against older workers. New bosses often want their own hand-picked "team" and let go of others. However, I do agree that this video is a PERFECT comparison.
Economically, the grades and money are interchangable. It is exactly the same thing. Economics is about costs. A high GPA carries costs just like earing money does. There is no difference.
A large amount of the top "earners" do not really "earn" their wealth, as much as inherit them. Not saying that they arent smart, nor hard workers, it's just that the assumption made that the harder you work, the more money you get is false.
GPA system is a merit based system, meanwhile income and wealth...not so much.
Taxing the top 1% or 5% is really more like allowing them to pay back to the system that allow for their success.
And top academic performers do not inherit their intelligence but earn it? So kids with lower GPAs are only performing more poorly because they don't earn it--not because they inherited a lower IQ, or they weren't provided intellectual stimulation or proper mentoring for scholastic achievement as children, etc.? You really think that GPA is purely merit-based, but net worth is largely unearned? I'm curious if you fancy yourself enlightened and not merely a parrot of academic indoctrination.
aznjokeryou: You are wrong. Most top earners are not inherited. 80% of millionaires are first timers who made their wealth themselves. There are several articles in the NYT about this that you can search.
@aznjokeryou The person who got the A has "inherited" certain traits from their parents which allowed them to get the A. It IS the same principle.
As for "paying back the system" that is ridiculous. First off WHO makes up this system? how do we determine who gets this stolen money? But in reality this money earned in a free market is the JOB of the government to secure, it is not a gift to the earner. If anything gov't workers should have to pay back the tax payers.
wow its amazing how you connected these two things. You need to start a petition to ban the use of dihydrogen monoxide. It's a chemicle found in lakes and rivers. It's used in pesticides, by nuclear companies, oil companies and in schools. Not just any schools, but in preschools! Our children are exposed to this chemical every day. It causes excessive sweating/urination, and has over time spread to our homes. Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide.
I am convinced! I am working now to remove all Dihydrogen Monoxide from my body. It isn't easy, but after a few months in this crate, I think it will all be gone.
Yeah man, but in the one case we're talking about smart Liberals getting grades with their smart Liberal brains, and in the other, well, that's MONEY, man . . . that's what motivates Liberals, you know, like, they can buy votes and power with it, which can be turned into more MONEY, man.
Amen! God forbid we apply the same logic when it dosen't promote an agenda that helps us. Love the assumption and tone from the male when he talks about the Top 5%. This enlightened boy can make the critique that the Top 5% have 'enough', but God forbid the Top 5% make that same assumption about the 95% below them; that would be greedy!
Perfect! Sadly, it appears that various people in America feel they are ENTITLED to things without doing the hard work and commitment. Meanwhile it appears those who feel they are entitled to handouts penalize those who work hard are save.
Who is the moron saying the rich should be paying taxes at a higher rate than others? They already DO.The wealthiest 5% of taxpayers now pay a majority of federal income tax, 50% of americans don't pay ANY.
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That's a load of bull! They're nowhere near the same thing. Some people don't do shit for their grades, so why would they get them from those who do. That's not the same as taxing the rich. The rich are hoarding money (rather than spending it and putting it back into circulation, which would improve the economy) and not all of them earn it. Ever heard of Paris Hilton? What exactly has she done to earn all of her money? When she was in school, her GPA was probably around a 1.0 at the most.
You're an idiot kid. It is exactly the same thing. I don't do "shit", as you say, for my grades, yet I still have a 3.6. My Dad should not have to pay more because some looser can't find a good job and lives outside his means.
And how do you know the "rich" are hoarding money? I know a lot of Multi Millionaires and they all provide Jobs for the community from their business, they pay high school students alot to clean their cars, and they donate a lot of money to schools.
Your logic is off. It is exactly the same thing. How hard or how little someone works for their grades or their money is irrelevant. Smart folks often work less for grades or money...because they work smarter. The point is...is it fair to take from one to equalize things for others?? The answer is NO.
You think you deserve some of Paris Hilton's money but you won't share your GPA with her. That's reprehensible and you prove the point exactly.
How ironic that they dont see how it is exactly the same thing. They work for their GPA, so they personally feel it. They havent made money yet, so they dont feel part of that class -yet.
The irony is that many of the students at that school with the same attitude will end up with high-paying jobs that will ultimately result in higher taxes for them. Higher taxes for people just because they are more financially successful is wrong. Politicians get away with it because they make up only a small percentage of the votes, but the economy is sure to suffer.
Very funny and very good point. I would love to see you do a video suggesting to those students that they are in the top 5% of wage earners globally (compared to places like India, China and Mexico) and asking them to sign a petition mandating that 1/2 (or more) of their paycheck be taken from them and redistributed to sweat shop workers making between $1 per day and $5 per day in Mexico and around the world.
That would be perfect...especially because this same group is all for giving up US sovereignty to the UN and their policies. Let's all become equal the world over.
Why do people equate Socialism with government redistribution of wealth?
T662W379C 3 days ago
Its scary to think these kids are getting good grades. GPA is no sign of basic intelligence and ability to reason.
dreinstein27 6 months ago
Few things. GPA's are capped. I can't invest my GPA to make more GPA. I can't buy/sell/trade my GPA, except at a set amount for a single item... Wait don't teachers already redistribute GPA? Isn't it called a curve? Doesn't it already force people to the average?
L2112Lifz 6 months ago
Its about hate envy and greed. If the wealthy keeps their wealth, they are "greedy". If they have it stolen from them by the Government then it suddenly becomes "compassion". Create a need, fill the need, then tell the brainless who you used to filled the need, they cannot survive without the creators of the need. IE; the left. It's all about buying votes, enslaving people and brainwashing those people into believing they can never free themselves from it..
TheMILVET 6 months ago
Wait until these Children get out in the real world.
Most of the high earners... small business owners work twice as hard to get where they are in life... They worked twice as hard in college and work twice as hard in the real world. Many have risked everything they had to start a company, worked sometimes for years without an income to finally see the payoff.
Terra812 6 months ago
Why is there so much hate for the wealthy? Realize that the wealthy provide substantial donations to many charitable organizations, not to mention the millions of jobs they create. The system is truly broken when I actually dread getting a raise because it puts me in a higher tax bracket.
I've never been employed by a poor person, have you?
qbeezer 7 months ago
I find this video to be a little erroneous. For one, a person's ability to earn a good GPA is entirely based on that person's own performance, their ability to earn money not so much. Everyone who goes to school can earn an A if they work hard enough, but not everyone can be rich. For instance, the CEO of a company relies on his employees in order to keep the business afloat and the money rolling in. If everyone was a rich CEO there would be no one to perform the lower, less paying jobs (cont)
BeekersSqueakers 8 months ago
@BeekersSqueakers thats not exactly true, the vast majority of college courses i ever took (at Rutgers) were graded on a curve. On a fair curve, most people get C's and those who got A's are offset by those who got F's. It can thus be said that those who got A's got them at the expensive of those who got F's. With the economy, when someone creates wealth it is *not* at the expense of someone else becoming poor. The size of the 'pie' is not fixed.
Xaanix73 6 months ago
@Xaanix73 I wasn't necessarily meaning that someone would become poor as a result of another person becoming rich. The point I was trying to make is that those who are rich depend on those who are poor for their wealth. Employers (rich) need their employees (poor) to stay within a certain income bracket otherwise the employees would not work that particular job and with no workers the employer's business would be ruined.
BeekersSqueakers 6 months ago
(cont) and then the company would cease to function and no one would be able to become rich. You can also look at it this way. There is an unlimited amount of grades that a school can issue, so theoretically every student can earn an A. However, the amount of money in circulation is limited, so for ever dollar you take for yourself that is one less for someone else to take. And the more you take the less there is for everyone else.
BeekersSqueakers 8 months ago
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these are some of the dumbest people in the world
jasonpatrick558 8 months ago
Earning grades or earning money, both a measurement of performance.
bomac10000 8 months ago
@bomac10000 Not necessarily. The A students don't rely on the failing students in order to get their A's. However, the rich do rely on the poor for their wealth, so no matter how well someone's career performance is, not everyone will be able to become rich.
BeekersSqueakers 8 months ago
@BeekersSqueakers .....Are you saying that the poor are poor because the rich are rich? That's rediculous!!!!
jerbak1933 6 months ago
the top 5% are not millionaires
TheDSPsphinx 8 months ago
we have the dumbest kids money can buy
warmunger911 8 months ago 2
How about you make it actually realistic. Give the students with the higher grades (or whose parents earned higher grades when they were at college) access to better resources, better library facilities, internet databases etc, and give the rest a notebook and a pen and tell them to go do the same work. While a few extremely lucky ones will be able to earn higher grades, thereby gaining better resources, the vast majority will languish forever earning lower and lower grades. Is that fair?
DrCamPhD 9 months ago
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GPA is not finite like money is and there is no way to invest GPA points to increase your overall GPA. If you look at the sociological studies on a person's class, they show that people born in a class generally tend to stay there. The American dream of going from nothing to a millionaire barely exists. Therefore the expression, "the rich stay rich" is true with money but not with GPA. That is the main difference here, having a high GPA does not help you get a high GPA in the future.
skanky87 9 months ago 3
When 1% of the population controls 80% of its wealth, wanting to lower that 80% a little bit is not socialism. I'm sorry but it's not.
skanky87 9 months ago 2
@skanky87 When 80% of statistics are made up right on the spot how can they be relied upon to form an economic philosophy?
eluminated 9 months ago
@skanky87 Agreed...
munkyusm 9 months ago
A higher GPA will get you more money. I'm not naive. I'm in HR. Sorry but it's a fact. Why would I hire a 2.5 GPA when I can get a 4.0? 4.0 means they are smarter and usually work harder.
People can make their own opportunities ... as long as DEMS, progressives and liberals don't redistribute it for them.
TheCitizen4truth 9 months ago
@TheCitizen4truth listen to this idiot munky man,,this is a "physician" in today's society,,not a freaking clue,,but sure has great ideas on how you should live what energy you choose etc etc..no wonder our world is so fucked up..ooops I swore
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy I don't want to tell you what to do...I just want to convince you that the current way is unsustainable and one day, capitalism will be completely discarded and laughed at by future generations.
munkyusm 9 months ago
are you one of the clueless crying for a handout munky man?
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy I'm not crying for a handout...I'm crying for equality. There's such a big difference, and you, like many can't seem to grasp it. When people are born with nothing, they're in trouble from the get go. To me, lack of money is simply a symptom of inequality. Money is not the answer to these problems, evening the playing field is...and yes, sometimes that cost money, but if it means that poor children have a better chance to succeed then, i'm all for it. All men are created equal.
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm save your BULLSHIT equality for the liberals.you cannot LEGISLATE equality..know why bubblehead? because people ARE NOT EQUAL.the kid whose parents have less money will be able to attend the same school that a SMARTER person for LESS money..is that equal? rewarding the dumber student with less tuition than the smarter one JUST becasue he makes more money? liberalism is a sickness ..seek help kid
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy When I say equality, I mean in opportunity. Do you think that a black kid with a 140 i.q. raised by uneducated, poverty stricken people is likely to be as "smart" or get as good an education as a white upper middle class kid with an i.q. of 100? Probably not, so let's just blame his parents for being uneducated and poor. So, we can admit it's not the kid's fault, but when he grows up and has a kid of his own and does the same thing as his parents, we blame him...it makes no sense.
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm with a 140 iq he ALREADY is as smart..SHOULD i hire him just because of THAT? what about his tats and piercings ,should I disregard that when employiong someone..how did your HERO obama do it how do MILLIONS of blacks do it? handouts? fuck no idiot..that wanted it and took the HAND UP not the hand out..are you sure you are a doctor? what school graduated you? was "common sense a prerequisite? i gusee not..your hung up on equal,you want equal ameica aint the place its a cream to the top
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@munkyusm people make their own opportunities dumbass..theres an old saying and its common sense so you may never heard of it but in life sometimes its not what you know its who you know.geez go figure life isnt fair..I should have your stuff to help level the playing field..
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy I really don't think you've listened to anything I've actually said and thought about it. I really think you're only regurgitating 50 years of moronic republican babble. I've seen both sides objectively, you clearly haven't. You only see the world from your own perspective and this is called ignorance. But, you can be blissfully ignorant if you want...it'll make it more painful to watch as the world shifts more and more towards the left. Also, stop cursing so much, you look dumb.
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm yeah you think you can legislate equality ,you are wrong.you think the minorities dont have a "equal" chance you are wrong.I explained to you how the lower grades and less incomed student attended the same school for thousands less than my son's boy.you ignore.when someone doesnt agree with your lioberal idea of "utopia" you call them ignorant when in fact YOU are the dumbfuck with zero common sense..mr physician please save it "shmuck" oh and btw america will shift big like midterms
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy Wow, we're not talking about utopia...there will never be utopia. But there's a much better way than watching 10% of the world's population own 90% of the world's wealth. 10 corporations are in the top 20 largest economies on the planet. If you think that's okay, then I have to question your sanity. It's simply not okay. Wealth and resources belong to people, not corporations and the rich.
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm first you say when i mean equality I MEAN opportunity then the real liberal surfaces to the top,I knew you couldnt help yourself and here it is..this is LIBERALISM I forget wealth and belongs to the people NOT the RICH and coprporations shouldnt be wealthy or make money because to a dumbfuck liberal like yourself the GOVT should legislate equality..lets face it nimmy YOU are the typical liberal THINKS EVERYONE sgould be ENTITLED to a guy's wealth who earns it..you have brain cancer .
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@munkyusm Wealth and resources belong to people, not corporations and the rich. LOL..now thats FUCKING about the dumbest thing I ever heard,,wealth belongs to "PEOPLE" not the RICH,,cause lets face it those rich guys arent fucking PEOPLE,,and those rich corporations THAT SUPPLY JOBS those arent fucking people those are ALIEN MONKEYS,,,do you have any freaking clue how stupid you sound EVEN without the potty mouth..LOL...maybe you should tryu a new approach.no rich giy no greedy corprationor race
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy Sigh, take "people" literally why don't you? Here's a different way to look at it - Technology will soon advance to the point where it's cheaper to build robots and computers to do almost every task a human being can do, and they will do it better. There will no doubt be less jobs. Say it gets to the point where every corporation fires basically everyone. What happens then?
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm haha then no one has money to buy their products so they have to start hiring workers again to create an economy to buy their shit.
skanky87 9 months ago
@skanky87 Exactly my point...the system is a pointless ponzi scheme that requires a never ending process of cyclical consumption. Look up how fractional reserve works. In reality, if robots were able to produce everything, everything could produced in such abundance so cheaply that it could theoretically be free. In that case...why not communism???
munkyusm 9 months ago
i love listening to liberal say it isnt the same..BUT you can BET YOUR ASS its the same..its something that is WORKED for..these pimpled faced indoctrinated morons have never worked a day in their fucking lives..they are professional leeches only working for grades,,IT is EXACTLY the same..only a brain dead liberal would think otherwise
wogdoggy 9 months ago
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munkyusm 9 months ago
@wogdoggy So, by your logic (as applied to the economy and politics), we shouldn't be giving assistance to ANYONE under ANY circumstance? Not even mentally handicap people? If you're going to imply that we think everyone should be given the exact same amount of money across the board, then you're open to the reverse assumption that you want the handicap and physically disabled to be left homeless and to ultimately starve to death because they can't work.
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm heres some real easy logic even a liberal might be able to grasp..ready? I have NO PROBLEM helping the helpless,BUT helping the CLUELESS is another story..dude you are overmatched here ...lol
wogdoggy 9 months ago
Wow, this is the dumbest analogy I've ever seen. Money and GPA are not alike in any way other than the idea that you work to attain them. If these college kids inherited their GPA from their parents, it would make a little sense, but even then it's retarded. In real life, everyone doesn't start out with a million dollars and then we let performance show how much they make over time. In reality, the poorest start with a "0.0 gpa" and the richest start with a "4.0 gpa"...just think about that.
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm save your liberal bullshit for your fellow liberal idiots...the richest start with a 4.0..what a moron..I thought about it and you are an idiot
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy Please explain where my logic is flawed?
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm they must WORK for their gpa which shows their refusal to give it up.thes kids never WORKED for their money yet so its easy for them to say money redistibution is ok..thats the point..when i hear the rich guy starts out with a 4.0 and the poor guy has a 0.0..my liberal idiot warning light goes off..
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy So, yes or no, do you agree that someone who has $0 to their name would have to work a hell of alot harder to make a million dollars than someone who has $900,000 to their name? Furthermore, do you think the guy with $900,000 would even have to WORK to get to a million? Couldn't he just put that cash in the bank and let interest accrue the other $100k without even having to WORK? This is economics, this isn't even politics...wtf with the liberal remarks?
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm when you go to school everybody starts with the same clean slate.the point is this is something these pimple faced morons have to earn thats why they think its unfair to share grades,,these twits havent even had to work yet to EARN a buck thats why it is EASY for them to say its different with money and success just because someone has 900 k and somone has shit means nothing to the point..I'm pretty much through with you now..carry on stupid
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy That's the point I was making...everyone starts with a 4.0 (i.e. "a million dollars"). You basically just admitted that it's completely illogical to compare money to gpa. Name calling does nothing to actually solve any problems in this world, it takes rational thought to do that. You clearly don't have that ability to do that yet. So, you're correct in saying that this conversation can go no further. Your understanding of economics and society are very naive. Educate yourself.
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm everyone starts with a CLEAN zero.when the kids had to earn it they didnt want to share it,,MONEY was ok to share..WHY IS THAT MORON? because they DIDNT HAVE TO EARN THAT.dADDY HAS provided FOR THEM THEY NEVER WORKED FOR A BUCK so IT WAS ok TO SHARE THAT WAS different..i;VE BEEN TRADING ON THE CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE SINCE 1979 .its good to know A guy like you can educate me about economics...I'll stick to name calling....YOU MORON!
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy Just because you're a chrony for this fucked up capitalist system that we live in doesn't mean you understand the first thing about socio-economics. And don't pretend to. You've jacked off to Milton Friedman, and that's about it. You most likely believe in social darwinism and that you are somehow smarter than all the poor people and that you succeded because of i't. You can't fathom that a kid born in the ghetto may not get a good education and may not have a chance to "succeed".
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm lol..what an idiot you are,,and your dad paid for the education you recieved..what a waste.the commie public school kid..HATES corporations BUT doesnt complain too much when he asks his dad for a 20.even though dad works for exxon ..exon is the bad guy..even though exon has mad it possible for thousands of workers to support their families..this dolt would rather put his faith in the educated left..lotsa kids have risen from the ghetto,and it wasnt because they got a bigger handout.lol
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@munkyusm whenever io hear this fucked p capitalist system you can bet your ass there is an UNDERACHIEVER complaining about it..capitalism provides the HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING FOR ALL..tell me what third world country you admire so much has a higher standard of living than us...you carck me up kid..how the fuck you could let some moron profeesor brain wash you is beyond belief..you truly are pathetic..this is my last post to you..now go get a twenty from the old man and complain about equalit
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy Simply because we have a higher standard of living does not make us better than them. You do realize that most of those third world countries are on the capitalist system right? This is the exact point I make. We're the rich country, and it's easy to stay rich when you have money. The poor countries will stay poor, and any rise in their economy will come at the expense of ours. As China gets bigger, we get smaller...that's how capitalism works. Btw I'm a physician.
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm really what makes us better than them? the poor coutries of this world are not capitalistic..china's standard of living is SHIT,,you should know that..the poor counties stay poor because of dictators you stupey..look at all the mideast oil wealth YET their standard of living is SHIT,,can you still blame capitalism for thier piss poor standard of living.a physician with zero common sense? scoring a 100 in "operation" doesnt make you a physician
wogdoggy 9 months ago
@wogdoggy So let me get this right...you're saying that if every country was just like America, then the whole world would be rich? It's completely illogical to think that. This global system we're on now, for China, India, or Brazil to grow it requires that America shrinks. America just so happened to grow and force everyone else to shrink for a long time, but it's starting to snap back. When we shrink far down the list, maybe then you will understand inequality. You'll blame Obama though.
munkyusm 9 months ago
This is an absurd idea for the following reason:
Money is a means and not and end - The government doesn't give money directly to the poor but uses it for public services and public goods.
You can't extract GPA from a high GPA student and use it for public services ( aka things made out of GPA ) while you can take money from high income people and use it for building defence, law and order and other public goods.
Selwich 9 months ago
@Selwich So the Government does not give temporary assistance directly to poor people?
You can extract GPA from one student and apply it to another students GPA thus providing a means to the student who is GPA poor, helping them to arrive an end which is their degree.
bulfrog5 9 months ago
"Probably like freakin millionaires or something?" Um, you mean, small businesses? School administrators? Thats whose in the top 5%. Millionaires and billionaires dont pay income tax, they pay capital gains or passive income tax. You have to have a JOB to pay income tax. Donald trump, for example doesnt have a job. he gives OTHER PEOPLE jobs. so you wont be taxing him more, youll be taxing his secretary higher rates.
Porojukaha 9 months ago
Haha! "It's not the same because that stuff belongs to MEEEEE!!" lmao
Great stuff! Maybe you didn't change their minds right then and there but I'm sure you planted the seeds in quite a few minds so that as soon as they hit the real world the truth of your idea will cause many an epiphany! :)
eluminated 9 months ago 2
@eluminated Money and GPA are not alike in any way other than the idea that you work to attain them. If these college kids inherited their GPA from their parents, it would make a little sense, but even then it's retarded. In real life, everyone doesn't start out with a million dollars and then we let performance show how much they make over time. In reality, the poorest start with a "0.0 gpa" and the richest start with a "4.0 gpa"...just think about that.
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm And why do you have to work to attain wealth and GPA's? Because they are both objects of value and THAT is the point of the survey. Secondly, wealth redistribution doesn't only effect those who were born into money. Was everyone who is rich born into it? Is it not true that some have become wealthy purely because of their own hard work, dedication and ingenuity? Wealth redistribution doesn't account for HOW you get your money, so the analogy in the vid stands and your analogy fails.
eluminated 9 months ago
@eluminated The point I'm making is the analogy is completely false on the grounds that ALL STUDENTS ARE TREATED EQUALLY. All students are given a 4.0 at the start, and based on their performance can either keep it or lose it. In reality, humans are not all given an equal start. Some start with two crackhead parents, and some start with the rockefellers for parents. Is it right to say that the kid born to the rockefellers DESERVES a better life than the crack baby? Of course not.
munkyusm 8 months ago
@munkyusm But you're claiming you should decide who "deserves" what. The poor person automatically deserves a portion of the wealthy person's property simply for having been born poor? That's absurd and completely disregards the potential for upward mobility in a free society. Was Oprah born wealthy? Was Bill Gates? According to your philosophy YOUR wealth should be redistributed to the 90% of people on this planet who don't have your standard of living. Do YOU deserve it more than they do?
eluminated 8 months ago
@eluminated Absolutely, I would be fine today...with giving up 90% of my "wealth". All I truly need is food, shelter, and preferably cigarettes. This is the ultimate point I make. These are basic needs, and yet we want to deny these to people all around the world simply because we want more. It's unethical. Furthermore, you talk about redistributing wealth as if it hasn't be done already. 400 Americans own more than the 155 million poorest combined. Wealth has already been redistributed.
munkyusm 8 months ago
@munkyusm Well then put your money where your mouth is! Don't say you'll 'be fine' with it, DO IT!
And who is "denying" them anything? Because people in the western world live decent lives that denies decent lives for the people in the third world? How?.. If you actually look past your rhetoric and analyse WHY most of those people are poor you'll find it's because they live under despots and dictators who steal the resources of the nation. And ALL of those dictators are leftists!
eluminated 8 months ago
@eluminated You clearly don't understand capitalism. It is a fundamental requirement of capitalism that there are haves and have nots. Do you honestly think that if all the world was just like America, everyone would be happy? Of course not! Furhtermore, We have "despots" STEALING the resources of the nation, leaving millions poor. You never responded to this statement, but 400 people OWN MORE than half of the U.S. population! And this is in the free market...
munkyusm 8 months ago
@munkyusm I didn't respond to your "400 people" claim because it's nonsense. But even if it were true, what difference does it make? Do they not employ people or buy things? If you want to get your hands on rich people's money then do something useful so maybe you can EARN IT! That's what the 'haves and have nots' means! You have a product or service that someone wants/needs and they will voluntarily give you money for it. And then you can turn around and do the same.. and on and on.
eluminated 8 months ago
@munkyusm Secondly, YOU clearly don't understand capitalism. The system we've existed under for the past 100 years has been Corporatism, political cronyism and the welfare/nanny state - and when that system fails you blame the free market and Capitalism?? The former is the antithesis of the latter and you apparently don't understand the reality of the world you live in because you don't seem to know the difference between the two.
eluminated 8 months ago
This will go right over the heads of the socialist redistributionist fools.
RabidKoala 9 months ago 2
@RabidKoala Money and GPA are not alike in any way other than the idea that you work to attain them. If these college kids inherited their GPA from their parents, it would make a little sense, but even then it's retarded. In real life, everyone doesn't start out with a million dollars and then we let performance show how much they make over time. In reality, the poorest start with a "0.0 gpa" and the richest start with a "4.0 gpa"...just think about that. I think it went over your head...
munkyusm 9 months ago
@munkyusm You put a nice spin on theft. Redistribution IS theft, and you advocate theft. If it is my money through earnings, investment or inheritance, it is mine not the property of you or the government. In America we do not have equality of outcome, nor should we. You are free to succeed or fail on your own merits, or lack thereof.
RabidKoala 9 months ago
@RabidKoala In school, everyone starts with a 4.0. So everyone's on an even playing field from the get go. This is the point I'm making. If my dad gave me $600k, I can put it in an account and let it accrue interest and get to a $1mil WITHOUT DOING ANY WORK. Imagine a person with $10 dollars to their name trying to get to a $1 mil. It takes infinitely more work. Why is it that when rich people don't do ANY WORK and make money it's okay? You're clearly the one who's putting a spin on things.
munkyusm 9 months ago
@RabidKoala cont. Furthermore, I love how conservatives have somehow convinced themselves that they're in the same boat as the 400 richest people in America who have as much wealth as 155 million people combined. You're not in that boat, and we're not advocating "stealing" from you.
munkyusm 9 months ago
I'm amazed (I shouldn't be, but I am) at the disconnect. They don't want their grades redistributed because it affects them, but the "rich" are those other people so it's okay when it's a faceless victim. "But I worked hard for these grades." Exactly, which is why those who earned their money should keep their money.
superjae5 9 months ago 2
@superjae5 Money and GPA are not alike in any way other than the idea that you work to attain them. If these college kids inherited their GPA from their parents, it would make a little sense, but even then it's retarded. In real life, everyone doesn't start out with a million dollars and then we let performance show how much they make over time. In reality, the poorest start with a "0.0 gpa" and the richest start with a "4.0 gpa"...just think about that.
munkyusm 9 months ago
Since I can hire others to help me build my wealth, and since in this video's analogy Wealth = GPAs, I should be able to hire a team of other students to do my schoolwork for me. Anyone have a problem with that?
digitalArtform 9 months ago
It just shows yet ANOTHER failure of LIBERALISM..its pretty much that easy,,BUT the sad part is look at the cash these poor parents paid for liberal indoctrination...get on your kids and teach them the sickness of the liberal mindset.
wogdoggy 10 months ago
@wogdoggy Money and GPA are not alike in any way other than the idea that you work to attain them. If these college kids inherited their GPA from their parents, it would make a little sense, but even then it's retarded. In real life, everyone doesn't start out with a million dollars and then we let performance show how much they make over time. In reality, the poorest start with a "0.0 gpa" and the richest start with a "4.0 gpa"...just think about that.
munkyusm 9 months ago
None of these people with 4.0 GPA deserve it if they can't figure out it's the same as paying taxes. Why do you get a 4.0 GPA? to get a better job? Then you probably will make more money and hence pay more in taxes. The tax increase are for those making over $200,000 not just millionaires. In reality, Millionaires will not pay more - they typically pay the same amount in taxes - no matter what the rate is.
It's an exact same thing. Earning money is exactly like earning a 4.0 GPA.
TheCitizen4truth 10 months ago
@TheCitizen4truth You really think a 4.0 means you make more money when you get out? Sounds pretty naive. I would say that the people with charisma, character, creativity, and a 2.5 gpa will make more money in the long run than a robot that churns out a 4.0 gpa. GPA is not indicative of income, furthermore income is not indicative of success.
munkyusm 9 months ago
Winning!
Texsun1359 10 months ago
@IggyHazard, what did you get your degree in?
tonys3825 10 months ago
So grades are like wealth! I get it! So I should be able to inherit my parents' GPA, then.
digitalArtform 10 months ago
@digitalArtform : Likely you do inherit your parent's GPA because it your parents had good GPAs, odds are they are earning more money and thereby are affording you educational opportunities and academic discipline that likely translate into your having a higher GPA than someone who's parents didn't have such high GPAs. And yes, grades are like wealth. Higher income is the reward for hard work. A higher GPA is the reward for hard work. It's all rather academic.
rippinsteo 10 months ago
@rippinsteo Not 'likely you do.' Inheriting a literal GPA from your parents' transcript to yours is either a formal, sanctioned program - or it is not.
digitalArtform 10 months ago
@digitalArtform
in a large sense many do "inherit" their GPA from their parents...... if they were fortunate enough to be born to parents who valued education and had the means to provide a proper pre-schooling experience for them, and then to send them (in many cases) to private schools, that would give them the upper hand over other, less advantaged individuals
coverscape 9 months ago
@coverscape The only sense that matters is the literal sense. When you inherit money you get money. So I should be able to go to my school and say 'I'd like my father's A in Organic Chemistry, please. Thank you.' And actually get it.
digitalArtform 9 months ago
Great video! Stupid is as stupid does. Can't wait for these geniuses to get into the job market...make good money and get the *hit taxed out of them.
MaxVonBogus 10 months ago
You have to nearly shut the video off, because the stupid of people is so deafening.
MrTurdFurgeson 10 months ago
This is great! It truly shows how if certain mandates benefit oneself, we are ok with them, however when the mandate affects us we tend to say "No Way! I worked hard for that". The reason why people are trying to get a 4.0 is to either get into a better Graduate School. The reason why they want to go to a better Graduate School is so they could earn more money. By redistributing the grades it affects them, so they don't want it. Nice video. Nice parallel.
anddenex 10 months ago
Socialism hurts the working poor more than anyone else. I'm 31 years old with a college degree and I've spent most of my post-college decade making less than $11/hr. but I would sooner eat a bullet than beg for the state to rob from someone else on my behalf. Socialism and globalism (internationalism) are the problems. Nationalism is the solution. War production would be our saving grace as it was in the 20th century. World War III is almost upon us and we're wallowing in weakness and apathy.
IggyHazard 10 months ago
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@IggyHazard "I've spent most of my post-college decade making less than $11/hr. but I would sooner eat a bullet than beg for the state to rob from someone else on my behalf." Good man. You have my respect. We need more men like you.
TheLegalImmigrant05 10 months ago
Brilliant way to make a point, I remember a few years ago a college student trying to make this same point using cookie sales.
paladin712 10 months ago
YOU ARE MY HERO!
daveassanowicz 10 months ago
I think the more you make the lower % you pay as a way to motivate people to make more.
shananagans5 1 year ago
Students that cheats or buy notes should give up points, as the corrupt rich people should give up some of their money. Being poor is not synonymous with being ignorant or illiterate, education is not always free for many people, being poor is not optional. Just think about the thousands of people who born in extreme poverty in places like Haiti, it would be fair to say that they dont deserve to receive some of those who squander their money on luxuries? People die everyday of hunger!
creoloko 1 year ago
@creoloko Then please, feel free to go ahead and give them whatever amount of money that is your that you feel is fair.
BigfootWRL 10 months ago
@BigfootWRL I actually do every now and then, even though my money is pretty limited. I really hope that people who wasted their money on unnecessary luxuries also have a little bit of consciousness to help the ones who really need it, specially the one who earn their money with corrupted acts. Is not for brilliant people to actually realize of that.
creoloko 10 months ago
@creoloko The reason they're poor is because their governments (mostly Marxist or Maoist) keep them poor. It's the same thing Stalin did to Ukraine in the 1920s. State-sponsored famine as a means of social control. The West sends aid to the sufferers but the oppressive whores of the state confiscate it. Some cultures deserve to be exterminated because they're based on oppression. In that case, Exterminance becomes Liberation. Hail Western imperialism! Hail Exterminance!
IggyHazard 10 months ago
ummmm...people EARN their GPA's. Very few rich people "earned" the grossly disproportionate income they benefit from, for various reasons. For one, many people secure high-paying careers through connections, and are no more meritorious than those lacking the connection. Secondly, society rewards certain tasks in a manner that is grossly non-commenserate, if nit ass-backwards in many cases, e.g., teachers making 40k while people dribbling basketball make millions. This vid is a SPECIOUS ANALOGY.
hatchbx 1 year ago
@hatchbx Learn how to play basketball??? Or maybe start up a campaign to get people to not watch basketball?
BigfootWRL 10 months ago
@hatchbx How is it that you know whether people earn their large income or not? Society includes you. What you and other leftists need to think less about is the difference between rich and poor, and think more about the ways in which other people's financial success benefits you. Rich people cannot, outside of illegal activity, do anything with their money that does not benefit other people. I
franceseattle 9 months ago
@hatchbx If the rich person buys stuff, someone else earns it by selling it, someone else by manufacturing it, etc. If the rich person saves his/her money, it is invested somewhere, and a business will end up using it to create more business which will employ people. If the rich person stuffs all his or her money into the mattress, it still does not hurt anyone, since it removes money from circulation, thereby increasing the buying power of everyone else's dollars.
franceseattle 9 months ago
We're doomed. This is the cream of America's crop?
The Marxist Professors have done their jobs well, comrade. Just wait till these dolts see 25%+ of their first paycheck get taken away. If they can even find a job.
gmhsmith 1 year ago 2
Clearly these students haven't yet worked a job. Hopefully their attitudes will change when they start a real job. And maybe they will mature and change for the better even more when they become parents. That did it for me. Love what you're doing Alyssa, and VERY encouraged that your generation has some intelligent, thinking, mature young people stepping up to the plate to right some long overdue wrongs. Good job!
TheHahnFive 1 year ago
for starters you are not 'taking' from people who earn more. Youare talking about tax rates (No nearly the same as GPA's -get a clue)
Naturally, much higher earners should pay higher tax rates because they are getting a much larger share of the money pie.
That Warren Buffet's secretary pay a higher rate of tax on her 50k than he does on his billions is not just wrong, it's obscene!
winston2015 1 year ago
@winston2015 I see you do not understand the concept of percent.
mntiki 1 year ago
@winston2015 just stumbled across this comment, and I know it's been a while since it was posted, but you do realize Warren Buffet pays himself a salary of $100,000 per year don't you? He also still lives in the house that he bought in 1958 for $31,500.
Muadil 1 year ago
Great idea! Wonder if they ever got it?
NFrankNinja 1 year ago
Fantastic, Alyssa !!!! The hypocrisy of our leftist college students is exposed!!!
tulsabball 1 year ago 2
Brilliant!
GOP71 1 year ago
The millionaires aren't going to miss their money, so redistribution of wealth is OK? I guarantee you when you tax 35% of their income, they're gonna miss it.
godgunsncountry 1 year ago 2
Great example of Liberal hypocrisy. *****
Gotta share this one more, folks.
jcwilliams72 1 year ago 5
America is the sole bastion for those who strive for greatness. If you can't handle allowing others their achievement for lack of your own, please find a country more to your way of thinking and stop trying to destroy mine.
AnarchPrince 1 year ago 2
This is just silly, there is no relationship
leppy111 1 year ago
@leppy111 How so? Please be as specific as possible.
daveassanowicz 10 months ago
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This is silly. Wealth redistribution is the Red Herring of our time.
If you want to make this a realistic comparison, you would make it such that a .001 reduction in GPA from someone with a 4.0 (to a 3.999) means a full point increase for someone with a 1.0 (to a 2.0).
Furthermore, in school, you have equal opportunity to excel. You aren't ever in danger of someone kicking you out of class so they can get a higher GPA. In life, you can be fired for the sole reason of greed.
Libertarian bs.
ZamielForte 2 years ago
@ZamielForte Communist BS. You arent going to be fired because of greed. You are going to be fired because you arent working hard enough. You are not making them enough money to justify paying you. Alyssa here made a perfect comparison, and it shows how deeply rooted communism is on college campuses.
Keep up the good work, Ms Cordova!
89Sunbird 1 year ago 2
Bunk. People get fired all the time to pad bottom lines, at least when CEOs aren't cooking books. And who decides how much "enough money" is? You might be making them double your salary in profit, but maybe they don't think its enough, and want triple returns. If a job doesn't make profit, fine, cut them. But all too often, people get dumped in order to reduce the number of people being paid, AND instead of hiring someone new, they just make everyone else do more work with no extra pay.
ZamielForte 1 year ago
@ZamielForte I'm sorry you got fired from McDonalds for sneezing in the mayonaisse, but the simple fact is if a person is making a business money, they arent going to get cut unless they are underperforming in comparison to their coworkers.
89Sunbird 1 year ago
@89Sunbird And I'm glad you've lived a charmed life where you've always gotten what you've wanted and everyone has bowed to you. The real world's just outside, and you should visit sometime.
Businesses fire people all the time to make more profit. Big businesses downsize because they need bigger dividends. After all, why pay 3 people for 120 hours work, when you can pay 2 people for that same 120 hours? And if they complain, fire them!
btw, I've never been fired from any job I've ever held.
ZamielForte 1 year ago
@ZamielForte This is why we need to stop hampering business from creating more jobs. Liberal policies constantly harm small businesses, who are the ones creating more jobs. Leftists also create a poor economic climate by adding to the cost of doing business, which makes our labor costs extremely high. It's a productivity issue. Because our labor costs are high, large businesses go away from the US, to where labor costs are less. Other countries don't import our goods bc of our huge costs.
franceseattle 9 months ago 2
@ZamielForte The only reason they can do these things is because there is an oversupply of labor and an undersupply of jobs. Democrats have largely created this scenario because they constantly demonize business and wealth creation. Actually, they are not interested in creating wealth, merely in redistributing it. After you have spent the past 60 years redistributing it, there isn't anything left. You actually have to create wealth and create jobs. This is what they don't grasp.
franceseattle 9 months ago 2
@89Sunbird Many people are fired for no reason having to do with productivity. You're rather naive. Anyone over 45 is likely to lose a job, as long as health insurance is involved directly with employers. And, our culture is so youth-obsessed, we do not value anyone we think is "old". The real discrimination in this nation is against older workers. New bosses often want their own hand-picked "team" and let go of others. However, I do agree that this video is a PERFECT comparison.
franceseattle 9 months ago
@ZamielForte
thats not the point. you still wont get the 4.0 that you worked so hard to achieve.
insanity401 1 year ago
Economically, the grades and money are interchangable. It is exactly the same thing. Economics is about costs. A high GPA carries costs just like earing money does. There is no difference.
JonnyUTSA 2 years ago
lawl. what false logic.
A large amount of the top "earners" do not really "earn" their wealth, as much as inherit them. Not saying that they arent smart, nor hard workers, it's just that the assumption made that the harder you work, the more money you get is false.
GPA system is a merit based system, meanwhile income and wealth...not so much.
Taxing the top 1% or 5% is really more like allowing them to pay back to the system that allow for their success.
aznjokeryou 2 years ago
And top academic performers do not inherit their intelligence but earn it? So kids with lower GPAs are only performing more poorly because they don't earn it--not because they inherited a lower IQ, or they weren't provided intellectual stimulation or proper mentoring for scholastic achievement as children, etc.? You really think that GPA is purely merit-based, but net worth is largely unearned? I'm curious if you fancy yourself enlightened and not merely a parrot of academic indoctrination.
jimroque14 2 years ago
aznjokeryou: You are wrong. Most top earners are not inherited. 80% of millionaires are first timers who made their wealth themselves. There are several articles in the NYT about this that you can search.
JonnyUTSA 2 years ago 2
@aznjokeryou The person who got the A has "inherited" certain traits from their parents which allowed them to get the A. It IS the same principle.
As for "paying back the system" that is ridiculous. First off WHO makes up this system? how do we determine who gets this stolen money? But in reality this money earned in a free market is the JOB of the government to secure, it is not a gift to the earner. If anything gov't workers should have to pay back the tax payers.
tfboyle 2 years ago 2
wow its amazing how you connected these two things. You need to start a petition to ban the use of dihydrogen monoxide. It's a chemicle found in lakes and rivers. It's used in pesticides, by nuclear companies, oil companies and in schools. Not just any schools, but in preschools! Our children are exposed to this chemical every day. It causes excessive sweating/urination, and has over time spread to our homes. Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide.
BlueLeader05 2 years ago
I am convinced! I am working now to remove all Dihydrogen Monoxide from my body. It isn't easy, but after a few months in this crate, I think it will all be gone.
indianaike 2 years ago
Heehee. Liberals ARE establishment now. This girl is a rebel. I love it.
miles581 2 years ago 2
Great Job Alyssa! You just put Rush Limbaugh's twenty years of economic comments into a two minute video.
"askmieke" makes a great one liner!
It's OK to take Tiger Wood's money and redistribute it to a less talented golfer, but it's not OK to take away a stokes off of a lesser qualified
countdimoney 2 years ago 2
Yeah man, but in the one case we're talking about smart Liberals getting grades with their smart Liberal brains, and in the other, well, that's MONEY, man . . . that's what motivates Liberals, you know, like, they can buy votes and power with it, which can be turned into more MONEY, man.
greengringo2003 2 years ago 2
Amen! God forbid we apply the same logic when it dosen't promote an agenda that helps us. Love the assumption and tone from the male when he talks about the Top 5%. This enlightened boy can make the critique that the Top 5% have 'enough', but God forbid the Top 5% make that same assumption about the 95% below them; that would be greedy!
UkraineTrainWreck 2 years ago 6
I'm so sick of this f-ing sense of entitlement. Deport this idiot along with all the illegals.
dretceterini 2 years ago 7
Perfect! Sadly, it appears that various people in America feel they are ENTITLED to things without doing the hard work and commitment. Meanwhile it appears those who feel they are entitled to handouts penalize those who work hard are save.
enjoythemusic1 2 years ago 3
PERFECT
WOHLF1 2 years ago 3
Great point made! Good job. Alyssa!
Moronic arguments made to the contrary.
jkmarshall001 2 years ago 4
Who is the moron saying the rich should be paying taxes at a higher rate than others? They already DO.The wealthiest 5% of taxpayers now pay a majority of federal income tax, 50% of americans don't pay ANY.
carlacalifornia9 2 years ago 4
great experiment - where am i? lol i remember me and my buddy were the first to be interviewed - i wanna see our awkward responses, heh
lorax101 2 years ago 2
hahaha you guys were too smart to be in the final cut :)
lysscordova 2 years ago 2
I like the part where they look around and the camera goes to the trees. "Oh, I was just video taping these birds over here."
mrpotus2024 2 years ago
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That's a load of bull! They're nowhere near the same thing. Some people don't do shit for their grades, so why would they get them from those who do. That's not the same as taxing the rich. The rich are hoarding money (rather than spending it and putting it back into circulation, which would improve the economy) and not all of them earn it. Ever heard of Paris Hilton? What exactly has she done to earn all of her money? When she was in school, her GPA was probably around a 1.0 at the most.
psychoticpenguin93 2 years ago
You're an idiot kid. It is exactly the same thing. I don't do "shit", as you say, for my grades, yet I still have a 3.6. My Dad should not have to pay more because some looser can't find a good job and lives outside his means.
And how do you know the "rich" are hoarding money? I know a lot of Multi Millionaires and they all provide Jobs for the community from their business, they pay high school students alot to clean their cars, and they donate a lot of money to schools.
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psychoticpenguin93 2 years ago
Your logic is off. It is exactly the same thing. How hard or how little someone works for their grades or their money is irrelevant. Smart folks often work less for grades or money...because they work smarter. The point is...is it fair to take from one to equalize things for others?? The answer is NO.
You think you deserve some of Paris Hilton's money but you won't share your GPA with her. That's reprehensible and you prove the point exactly.
askmieke 2 years ago 4
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psychoticpenguin93 2 years ago
Great job on the video Alyssa!! That's an awesome comparison!
Sumpnels 2 years ago 4
How ironic that they dont see how it is exactly the same thing. They work for their GPA, so they personally feel it. They havent made money yet, so they dont feel part of that class -yet.
JonnyUTSA 2 years ago 3
great job!
ZahiriKyliso 2 years ago 2
This should be required viewing.
fjwjr 2 years ago 5
uhhh WOW
NEOCON23 2 years ago 3
Wow this is incredible. Good job. I think that GPA and money is a good comparison.
-jwb
Krayt101 2 years ago 5
The irony is that many of the students at that school with the same attitude will end up with high-paying jobs that will ultimately result in higher taxes for them. Higher taxes for people just because they are more financially successful is wrong. Politicians get away with it because they make up only a small percentage of the votes, but the economy is sure to suffer.
daniel131131 2 years ago 5
oh jeezeee.
good job!
whatsername541 2 years ago 2
Very funny and very good point. I would love to see you do a video suggesting to those students that they are in the top 5% of wage earners globally (compared to places like India, China and Mexico) and asking them to sign a petition mandating that 1/2 (or more) of their paycheck be taken from them and redistributed to sweat shop workers making between $1 per day and $5 per day in Mexico and around the world.
penguinistas 2 years ago 23
That would be perfect...especially because this same group is all for giving up US sovereignty to the UN and their policies. Let's all become equal the world over.
askmieke