Public Schools - Bad for American Students?

[Kilroy_x]

Originally Posted by MarisaKirisame

Personally, I think it'd be more of a hassle to punch numbers into spreadsheets than be able to interact with people and not have to think terribly much, just using your memory and some common sense.

I don't.

I'm not saying punching numbers into spreadsheets isn't mindless. In fact, it doesn't require much thought at all, I'm just saying it seems like it'd be a lot more of a pain in the butt to me.

This is why I asked you how much job experience you had.

I'm just giving my opinion. Sorry if I made it sound like I was saying "if it is more of a hassle, then it IS better pay." I mean to say "in my opinion, most jobs have pretty fair salaries in comparison to how much work/thought is put into them."

I'm saying your opinion has questionable basis. Most jobs have salaries relative to the demand for the product produced by them. Athletes get paid millions for producing highly valued entertainment, workers are McDonald's get paid an hourly wage for lowly valued foodstuffs.

There are two components to demand, individual quantity and group quantity. IE, even though a lot of people value McDonald's, they value it at maybe $5 a meal, whereas a lot of people also value sports but they value it at the cost of $30-50 a ticket. Of course there are other demand curves to take account of, but this is just a simplification.

Well there are tons of ways to get money for even very expensive colleges, we could go on all day naming ways. But yeah, people with less money are therefore slightly less likely to get a good education, but if they try hard enough when they have the right chances, it's highly unlikely they'll be poor for more than one lifetime.

What exactly are the "right chances"? What exactly do you propose they put their efforts towards? You see, there's this problem I see, that has much more universality than it reasonably should, that when someone asks for advice they get just the words "try harder" as a response.

As a person who has learned things, although unfortunately not enough things, I would just like to make known how senseless a response this is.