GPA redistribution: The smearing of higher education, and a major logical fallacy

At UC Merced students representing the more conservative walk of life petitioned students on campus to allow GPA redistribution, explaining in their opinion, that this would mirror our redistributive tax code.

I will explain this highly amusing logical fallacy to you in several terms, and then explain why FOX and Glenn Beck and conservatives the world over are just pissed off that those capable of learning at an advanced level just don't subscribe to the political party nor the political ideology that spends so much of its time attacking the higher education structure in the first place.

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[Welsh77]

it's not true that your gpa is the product of just your own effort, not true at all. some people work very very hard while others put little to no effort in and they get the same grades. how exactly did you merit a high IQ?

[Styxhexenhammer666]

That would be the equivalent of greater skills= generally greater income.

This is fine, and nobody claims a janitor should make as much as a harvard phD- but the fact remains that there are folks who make exorbitant sums without doing any work at all.

[Welsh77]

this kid doesn't understand economics, people who make more money make more money because they produce more output, although not necessarily because they work hard. there is no 1 to 1 correlation in the market between effort and pay, but anyone that thinks there is a 1 to 1 correlation in effort and gpas has never been to a university. sounds to me like on principle there's room for at least a little gpa redistribution. most people with high net worth inherited nothing, that's simply a fact

[Styxhexenhammer666]

I never claimed there was a 100% correlation merely that there are plenty of cases of people who through no work of their own are fantastically wealthy.

True, there are those who do not need to study as hard to retain information and do well gradewise, but they are in the minority.

Ask yourself this, do the bankers etc that fuck with the currency values add anything to society while making billions? They destroy entire economies as freeloading parasites.

[ArmorDinnerJacket]

a failure on your first point - some people are naturally smarter than others - that's the equivalent of inheritance

your argument is the fallacious one - you are justifying discrimination and theft against and from those with more money

whatever way you look at it, you are a bigot

[Styxhexenhammer666]

"Discrimination against the rich."

Many of whom achieved that wealth through unscrupulous means.

[S730SD]

A tax code that is redistributive has no moral right to exist. Ditto for any such garbage as GPA redistribution. What sort of depraved mind originates that sort of filth?

[Welsh77]

you don't always need to do a lot of work to produce value for others. music artists like drake or someone does indeed produce millions of dollars of value for others, because lots of individuals are willing to pay. drake by no means works millions of times harder than anyone else, but he still creates that much more value as evidenced by millions of people each willing to contribute a small amount to hear his music. your ideology destroys wealth

[Welsh77]

that may be true, but how are people to be compensated? by the value that they produce for others voluntarily, even if that is by doing little work and collecting investment income, or by what some authority believes they think people deserve? the latter situation usually just results in ultimate power being vested in some place that gets taken over by a totalitarian. some people will not work hard and be rewarded greatly, but that's a necessary part of a system where commoners improve their lot

[Welsh77]

why don't you prove that before supporting a policy that makes vast generalizations about millions of households. go after the people who wrong others, but the fact is that the overwhelming majority of rich harmed no one to get where they are

[Welsh77]

the signals of profit and arbitrage in a free market economy act as signals to get people to move resources and do things that benefit the society as a whole. just because people don't do them with the intention of helping others doesn't mean their efforts don't go to good causes. there is simply no way to maintain an extensive order like the one we have, no way to serve the interests of those whom you do not know, without bankers and the like performing the manipulations that you complain about

[Welsh77]

you know nothing about how the financial system works or about how a wealthy society comes about. YES, bankers do create wealth and add value by facilitating a complex and extended system of investing the society's savings into assets that generate returns and create wealth. go to new delhi and haiti believing this crap and shoot all the investors and bankers, you'll assure the poverty empire remains forever