[video=youtube;lOyaJ2UI7Ss]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOyaJ2UI7Ss&feature=player_embedded[/video]
Found this via Jason Chaffetz facebook's page. What is your opinion?
I would do it if I was given the option, perhaps I'm too soft heart-ed for my own good?
There's a difference between GPA and money. Most people aren't born into good GPA's.
Videos Flaws:
1. Compares a mostly merit-based system to a mostly inheritence and chance based system.
2. Disregards the fact that the work to reward ratio in school and in careers is entirely different. Someone can do manual labor for 70 hours per week and make 25,000 dollars per year, but a CEO can work 35 hours per week and make 5 million dollars per year.
3. Money and GPA aren't really comparable anyway.
A better video would be to ask the 4.0 students if they'd like to donate, or redistribute, some of their time to tutor their less fortunate peers who have to work part/full time jobs WHILE maintaining their full time school work (this often happens because they need the job to pay for living/food/bills and they need to retain a full-time academic career for some scholarship that doesn't actually cover all of the costs).
I guarantee most of them would actually agree to this. I know I would.
[QUOTE=Collin665;36498300]
A better video would be to ask the 4.0 students if they'd like to donate, or redistribute, some of their time to tutor their less fortunate peers who have to work part/full time jobs WHILE maintaining their full time school work (this often happens because they need the job to pay for living/food/bills and they need to retain a full-time academic career for some scholarship that doesn't actually cover all of the costs).
I guarantee most of them would actually agree to this. I know I would.[/QUOTE]
Although that would be [I]asking[/I] if they would like to donate their time to others, not requiring. Wealthy people are perfectly capable of donating lots of money; taxes force them to give up their money (unless they do their tax evading tricks).
[QUOTE=Collin665;36498300]Videos Flaws:
1. Compares a mostly merit-based system to a mostly inheritence and chance based system.
2. Disregards the fact that the work to reward ratio in school and in careers is entirely different. Someone can do manual labor for 70 hours per week and make 25,000 dollars per year, but a CEO can work 35 hours per week and make 5 million dollars per year.
3. Money and GPA aren't really comparable anyway.
A better video would be to ask the 4.0 students if they'd like to donate, or redistribute, some of their time to tutor their less fortunate peers who have to work part/full time jobs WHILE maintaining their full time school work (this often happens because they need the job to pay for living/food/bills and they need to retain a full-time academic career for some scholarship that doesn't actually cover all of the costs).
I guarantee most of them would actually agree to this. I know I would.[/QUOTE]
Quit stealing from the Youtube comments.
I know these people who were interviewed, it's utter bullshit.
weather or not the logic about this is flawed, but they edited the crap out of what they recorded and ask for consent to use the footage that they were in (you can sue and win, take note of that if it happens to you). I remember the guy on the left in the thumb nail was pissed as hell when he saw this uploaded.
This crap is generated by the repulican club at ucm, which have a meme created after them because their so stupid.
This reminds me of that collage professor who tried this with his class. He emulated communism, and took all the scores and averaged them and gave everyone that score. It worked decently until the smart students noticed the less smart ones would just do nothing and ride of their work, so the smart students stopped working completely. Everyone failed, but it was a great experiment.
[QUOTE=Gnomical;36501369]This reminds me of that collage professor who tried this with his class. He emulated communism, and took all the scores and averaged them and gave everyone that score. It worked decently until the smart students noticed the less smart ones would just do nothing and ride of their work, so the smart students stopped working completely. Everyone failed, but it was a great experiment.[/QUOTE]
Not enough propaganda.
You needed a political commissar at the front of the class with a megaphone shouting the glorious facts of the great marxist ideals.
He would shoot the lazy workers for being capitalist pig spies trying to ruin the glorious classroom.
The proletariat must always work for the glory of the classroom!
[QUOTE=Gnomical;36501369]This reminds me of that collage professor who tried this with his class. He emulated communism, and took all the scores and averaged them and gave everyone that score. It worked decently until the smart students noticed the less smart ones would just do nothing and ride of their work, so the smart students stopped working completely. Everyone failed, but it was a great experiment.[/QUOTE]
he didn't even murder anyone that protested the system? hardly accurate
Is the difference between highest and lowest GPA's greater than ever?
Is there a huge deficit of GPA points caused by scholastic stimulus and GPA redistribution cuts from the previous administration?
Are the highest GPA students doing just fine while the middle GPA students are struggling, or are they all struggling?
Fuck you Chaffetz and your retarded analogies.
this is fucking stupid, gpas don't operate under the same principles as money
a grade does not associate with it any quantity of anything that will ever be used, it's merely a measure of your academic performance
money is used for a variety of necessary tasks, such as paying for food, health insurance, housing, or electricity
whoever actually thinks this is a valid idea is fucking stupid
[QUOTE=SystemGS;36505569]this is fucking stupid, gpas don't operate under the same principles as money
a grade does not associate with it any quantity of anything that will ever be used, it's merely a measure of your academic performance
money is used for a variety of necessary tasks, such as paying for food, health insurance, housing, or electricity
whoever actually thinks this is a valid idea is fucking stupid[/QUOTE]
this is such for the UC merced's republican club.
They've said and done such stupid things that there are republicans on campus who try to avoid them at all costs. during a political debate the republican side which was also the republican club shouted out, "that's a false fact" and the entire audience roared in laughter and a meme out of the club's logic came to be.
[url]http://www.facebook.com/pages/Professor-Porters-False-Facts/179427138761022#!/media/set/?set=a.180872695283133.32127.179427138761022&type=3[/url]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/rGudm.jpg[/IMG]
sadly the best ones I haven't see online.
"rats eat cheese
cats kill rats
dogs kill cats
human kills dog
poison kill human
therefore poison is on top of the food chain"
Also two years ago they had karl rove speak at the university and during their preposal at ICC they made it a point that this will make them money buy
selling tickets, like 5000 dollars and asked for 5000 at the meeting. They were trying to sell tickets two months in advance, no one wanted to pay on campus except for themselves. So they reduced the price and nothing, so they were giving them away, nothing, they even when to a point in saying "last tickets to see karl rove only X left, tickets are free" (they would alternate from 2 to 5) and you would come back the next week to hear the same thing like the day before. Now I think they did make profit from the merced community which is mostly far right republican or tea party. Well they owed the student government 5000 and rules were put in place to make it harder for approval of money just because of the republican club.
Most people involved in club organizations on that university say the republican club is a bane of student government.
edit:
blacksam, where did you find this?
edit2:
I found one of the better false facts, but not the ones made of gold
[url]http://theotherchild.tumblr.com/post/3796905939/false-fact-radio-is-on-the-air[/url]
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