Cant trust em
Phony e-mail going around about "socialism"
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little... The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will try or want to succeed.
Fun stuff.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5472021
Sounds about right.
I would change the line to read "All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade." The "so no one would fail and no one would receive an A" part is inaccurate because it's possible that they could all average out to have and A or, as we see, they could all average out to have an F. But otherwise, it's dead on.
blueclown
1. Do these idiots even know what socialism is?
Primitive must be talking to himself.......... again.
Let's see:
Main Entry: so·cial·ism
Pronunciation: \ˈsÅ-shÉ™-ËŒli-zÉ™m\
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 (a): a system of society or group living in which there is no private property; (b): a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........
"collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of distribution of goods... distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done."
coupled with
"All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade."
So the prof was the owner/administrator, and the students were unequally distributed something other than their true grade (based upon their own individual effort), but rather received the average of the collective.
(sniff) Yep, smells like socialism.
Dummies. Are. So. Stupid.
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