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yea we all want to live in a fricking iphone commercial you cute twink its a good thing socialists are lazy idiots or the reds might have won the cold war
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For all of their complaints about capitalism being selfish, why are all of their dream activities in the hypothesized utopia so self-centered? Like everything is about what brings them personal enjoyment or what fulfills their personal desires/passions. Even being a student is about personal improvement. Although this guys seems to want to do it perpetually.
If, as proclaimed, they love socialism/communism so much, why are all of these antiwork types not dreaming about making personal sacrifices for the greater good of everyone? I mean, sure, farming potatoes and rice might be boring and back-breaking labour, but these people should be happy to toil under the sun (for free) to provide sustenance for everyone in the community, right?
Or maybe they can grind away in the steel furnaces in order to make housing materials instead. 
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How those morons not feel the satisfaction of a hard day's work? I legit love to work.
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You'll start to hate it when it takes away 12 hours of your day.
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I work 12 hour days almost every day. Physical labor too. I love it.
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I was never more depressed than during my months of job hunt.
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professional student is an oxymoron
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Render unto Terry
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They need the good grades to survive
it's like the stories about super rich people and adrenochrome
if they don't have a professor give them good person points they will deteriorate
I recently graduated and in most of the classes not related to my major I had to take, it was REALLY easy to get a B with minimal effort, and all you had to do to get an A was to prove you know a little extra. But that was the "hard" professors. Most of them just gave you an A if you turned in your work and repeated back factoids in all the right blanks.
People who looked like reddit IRL acted like their grades were mana from heaven, and they hated all my favorite professors because they were "unreasonable", "mean", and "hard"
Had pretty good conversations with a few of them about how they have witnessed decline in education over their career but that would make a longer and even more serious post than this one
Even in science classes I met a bunch of really boring people who thought they were a VERY smart hecking scientist because they could memorize the Krebs cycle and get an A on the test. Memorizing the Krebs cycle (in great detail) is not easy, but it's also not a big deal if you are taking a serious biology class.
A lot of people in college are very good at memorizing and following proceedures, but when a test asks them to use critical thinking or invent a new method to solve a problem on the spot based on common sense, they panic, then seethe, then make really bad cope reviews on ratemyprofessor
These walking examples of the Dunning Kruger effect often get into grad school, and are extremely careful to find professors who never push them out of their comfort zone, and they keep getting their critical supply of A grades that assures them they are right and smart. They've probably been addicted to educational validation since grade school, making it a pretty hard habit to break.
I'm reminded of red pants in this instant classic of a video:
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Can you do a full writeup on this stuff? Very interesting!
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Lmao
Red pants is real salty, great example
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I'd be interested in that post if you have time. I think the root of the problem is the commercialization of university, buying access to a diploma has become a rite of passage to be part of the intelligentsia, something half the middle class desires.
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The professors I talked to didn't offer me a lot of theories on why it was happening, besides the ones anyone can come up with through observation, but they sure could tell me about what was happening, and the pressure they received to be "nicer" to students that would have been considered too rslurred for college 40 years ago when they began teaching are now just right in the middle of what is now an average student. The professor I'm thinking of right now said she gets a "talk" about every 10 years about how she is being too hard on people, and is basically told to lower her standards. "We can't fire you because of tenure, but also we can give you a lot of bullshit and the worst class times :)"
I knew it was bad when the first day of class she ranted about how we "ALL need to capitalize our "i's" when writing ANYTHING, not just essays, and she will not accept any arguments about it being "our culture" or having one high school teacher that let us write like txtspeak in 9th grade history class. I say this every semester and someone does it anyway every semester!"
That was my first day of college and I was in absolute shock lmao
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You sat down and wrote all this shit. You could have done so many other things with your life. What happened to your life that made you decide writing novels of bullshit on rdrama.net was the best option?
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As a grad student I worked a job correcting exams for freshmen engineering students, it wasn't jovial
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Holy shit the cope from red pants and the black when it turns out theyβre not as smart as they think they are. You can feel the seethe when the find out theyβre dumber than the guy who joined the military instead of going to college.
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OK BUT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE...!
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