Re: RIGHT ON! (Humor)
- From: Shava_X <voodopeople@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:37:10 -0600
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:42:12 -0800, panson wrote:
> A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so
> many others her age she considered herself to be a very liberal
> Democrat and was for distribution of all wealth.
> She felt deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican
> which she expressed openly.
>
> One day she was challenging her father on his beliefs and his
> opposition to higher taxes on the rich & more welfare programs. In the
> middle of her heart-felt diatribe based upon the lectures she had from
> her far left professors at her school, he stopped her and asked her
> point blank, how she was doing in school.
>
> She answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know
> that it was tough to maintain. That she had to study all the time,
> never had time to go out and party like other people she knew. She
> didn't even have time for a boyfriend and didn't really have many
> college friends because of spending all her time studying. That she was
> taking a more
> difficult curriculum.
>
> Her father listened and then asked, "How is your friend Mary?"
> She replied, "Mary is barely getting by", she continued, "all she has
> is barely a 2.0 GPA" adding, "and all she takes are easy classes and
> she never studies." But to explain further she continued emotionally,
> "But Mary is so very popular on campus, college for her is a blast, she
> goes to all the parties all the time and very often doesn't even show
> up for classes because she is too hung over."
>
> Her father then asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's
> office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your 4.0 GPA and give it to your
> friend who only had a 2.0." He continued, "That way you will both have
> a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair equal
> distribution of GPA."
>
> The daughter visibly shocked by the fathers suggestion angrily fired
> back, "That wouldn't be fair! I worked really hard for mine, I did
> without and Mary has done little or nothing, she played while I worked
> real hard!"
>
> The father slowly smiled and said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
>
> (From Taylor Scheiner)
Lets compare this to life outside of college.
Companies like Wal Mart would not have nearly the profit the margin, and
there investors would not be nearly as rich, if they weren't able able to
get most of their employees to work for sub-living (poverty) wages. Many
of their employees would homeless or otherwise destitute if it were not
for government subsidy (welfare programs). Likewise, most manufactures
would not be able making nearly as much money if they couldn't get people
in third world nations to work for virtual slave-wages. (In the late
1990s, Gap inc had 15% profit margin, 3X the industry average, only
because the pay it gave workers in its factories was less than half of
what was need to live at the poverty line).
If that is applied to the fictional university in the "joke", we can
conclude that the professors were grading on a sever curve that boosted
the grades of students on the high end, and reduced the grades of people
on the low end. The young women was only getting a 4.0 because her friend
was getting 2.0. If the curve were eliminated, the young woman would
likely be getting a 3.7 or 3.8, and her friend a 3.2 or 3.3.
Welcome to reality.
.
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