Civics lesson

[SD Realtor]

One thing that I can attest to being true is the knowledge of some freshman in college. I was at my brothers last night and his son and a bunch of his buddies were there on spring break. This is an assortment of freshman and they all came from Uni High (class of 08 obviously). Last night I after dinner I was asking them what they all thought about the current administration of which they were all raving about. They were ALL FIRMLY of the belief that the government is responsible for making sure that everyone has an equal opportunity for success regardless of level of effort. There was total agreement that people who make more then 100k a year are very wealthy and can easily afford a higher tax rate. I asked each one of them, including my nephew if they knew how much thier parents made and none of them did. I asked if they had any idea of the budget that thier parents were constrained by and none of them did. I asked them if they understood the ramifications of what changes our country may be faced with if we are suddenly forced to deal with our debt burden and none of them did.

The above story by jp may be an urban legend but what is not legend is a very fundamental misunderstanding about basic policies of not being able to spend what you do not have. A social utopia is not free. Our checkbook is not unlimited but by and large I feel that most young people have no clue about that.

[jpinpb]

SDR – Don’t let them see that movie Zeitgeist. That might be a rude awakening for them.

[jpinpb]

SDR – Don’t let them see that movie Zeitgeist. That might be a rude awakening for them.

[jpinpb]

SDR – Don’t let them see that movie Zeitgeist. That might be a rude awakening for them.

[jpinpb]

SDR – Don’t let them see that movie Zeitgeist. That might be a rude awakening for them.

[jpinpb]

SDR – Don’t let them see that movie Zeitgeist. That might be a rude awakening for them.

[SDEngineer]

I have no doubt this is an urban legend.

One clue is that the professor presumably would have known the difference between socialism and communism. The example used in this class was strict communism.

Under most forms of socialism, there is still incentive to get ahead, and people are not treated exactly equally. A doctor, for example, still commands a premium wage over a ditchdigger. The difference is simply that the wage inequality which occurs under capitalism is kept somewhat in check (especially under most hybrid systems, which appear to be the most successful, which fuse elements of both capitalism and socialism together), and a minimum living standard (usually pretty low) is guaranteed to it’s citizens.

Does anyone here really think that, for example, a CEO actually should be paid 200-300x the average salary of his workers (which is roughly the current average)? Or a trust fund kiddy who’s dad made it big, but who has never actually done anything productive themselves make – simply based on capital investment alone – hundreds of thousands of dollars a year?

[SDEngineer]

I have no doubt this is an urban legend.

One clue is that the professor presumably would have known the difference between socialism and communism. The example used in this class was strict communism.

Under most forms of socialism, there is still incentive to get ahead, and people are not treated exactly equally. A doctor, for example, still commands a premium wage over a ditchdigger. The difference is simply that the wage inequality which occurs under capitalism is kept somewhat in check (especially under most hybrid systems, which appear to be the most successful, which fuse elements of both capitalism and socialism together), and a minimum living standard (usually pretty low) is guaranteed to it’s citizens.

Does anyone here really think that, for example, a CEO actually should be paid 200-300x the average salary of his workers (which is roughly the current average)? Or a trust fund kiddy who’s dad made it big, but who has never actually done anything productive themselves make – simply based on capital investment alone – hundreds of thousands of dollars a year?

[SDEngineer]

I have no doubt this is an urban legend.

One clue is that the professor presumably would have known the difference between socialism and communism. The example used in this class was strict communism.

Under most forms of socialism, there is still incentive to get ahead, and people are not treated exactly equally. A doctor, for example, still commands a premium wage over a ditchdigger. The difference is simply that the wage inequality which occurs under capitalism is kept somewhat in check (especially under most hybrid systems, which appear to be the most successful, which fuse elements of both capitalism and socialism together), and a minimum living standard (usually pretty low) is guaranteed to it’s citizens.

Does anyone here really think that, for example, a CEO actually should be paid 200-300x the average salary of his workers (which is roughly the current average)? Or a trust fund kiddy who’s dad made it big, but who has never actually done anything productive themselves make – simply based on capital investment alone – hundreds of thousands of dollars a year?

[SDEngineer]

I have no doubt this is an urban legend.

One clue is that the professor presumably would have known the difference between socialism and communism. The example used in this class was strict communism.

Under most forms of socialism, there is still incentive to get ahead, and people are not treated exactly equally. A doctor, for example, still commands a premium wage over a ditchdigger. The difference is simply that the wage inequality which occurs under capitalism is kept somewhat in check (especially under most hybrid systems, which appear to be the most successful, which fuse elements of both capitalism and socialism together), and a minimum living standard (usually pretty low) is guaranteed to it’s citizens.

Does anyone here really think that, for example, a CEO actually should be paid 200-300x the average salary of his workers (which is roughly the current average)? Or a trust fund kiddy who’s dad made it big, but who has never actually done anything productive themselves make – simply based on capital investment alone – hundreds of thousands of dollars a year?

[SDEngineer]

I have no doubt this is an urban legend.

One clue is that the professor presumably would have known the difference between socialism and communism. The example used in this class was strict communism.

Under most forms of socialism, there is still incentive to get ahead, and people are not treated exactly equally. A doctor, for example, still commands a premium wage over a ditchdigger. The difference is simply that the wage inequality which occurs under capitalism is kept somewhat in check (especially under most hybrid systems, which appear to be the most successful, which fuse elements of both capitalism and socialism together), and a minimum living standard (usually pretty low) is guaranteed to it’s citizens.

Does anyone here really think that, for example, a CEO actually should be paid 200-300x the average salary of his workers (which is roughly the current average)? Or a trust fund kiddy who’s dad made it big, but who has never actually done anything productive themselves make – simply based on capital investment alone – hundreds of thousands of dollars a year?

[an]

There are probably different implementation of socialism too. I know many people from Sweden and over there, you’d get pay equivalent doing manual labor work as being an engineer. Since school is also free over there, many people chose to do manual labor work instead since it require less education and you get paid the similar.

[an]

There are probably different implementation of socialism too. I know many people from Sweden and over there, you’d get pay equivalent doing manual labor work as being an engineer. Since school is also free over there, many people chose to do manual labor work instead since it require less education and you get paid the similar.

[an]

There are probably different implementation of socialism too. I know many people from Sweden and over there, you’d get pay equivalent doing manual labor work as being an engineer. Since school is also free over there, many people chose to do manual labor work instead since it require less education and you get paid the similar.

[an]

There are probably different implementation of socialism too. I know many people from Sweden and over there, you’d get pay equivalent doing manual labor work as being an engineer. Since school is also free over there, many people chose to do manual labor work instead since it require less education and you get paid the similar.

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