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Old 07-02-2003, 05:27 PM  
hardjoko1
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Malaysia
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Say your plan is go to school, work, married, ...

This is what happen.

You go to school. Graduate level classes can be taken straigth without prerequisite. But you have to do homeworks and move as slow as everyone else. You know most of the courses are garbage, but you have to learn it and move as everyone else. The useful stuff can be learn very quickly, but you got to slow down because every one else is slow.

Meanwhile, you pay tuition and work. If the tuition paid + your sallary working is used in stock, by the time you graduate you would have had residual income as much as your sallary.

You see, how your capability and initiative are simply mitigated in school. Even though you could have been way more productive (and therefore make more money) by not taking garbage classes and take classes you're good at quicker, you can't because the system is design to make you move as slow as everyone else.

Anyway, you ignore that and still go to school to get a degree. Yipee. You pick an occupation with low supply and high demand so you get paid high right? Well, when you graduate, government will simply make rules saying that bricklayer and blue collar workers are protected from foreign competitors while the programmers have to compete toe to toe with foreigners. So, your sallary is global market price, but you have to pay higher for fixing your cars, the maid, fixing your house, your food. Higher costs of living, which simply means implicit welfare for all those lesser than you. American living costs is higher than the rest of the world due to this implicit welfare.

And then you pay Social security and medicare and income tax totalling 50%. You have to pay more because you do not have kids. What can you do to have kids then? You get married, which leads to divorce. Now, your wife just sit around fucking the milkman while you have to pay half of your sallary for alimony. Another half goes to child support of the bastard child they make. So you only use a measly 12.5% of your income which mostly goes to implicit welfare for the farmers and blue collar workers. You yourself sleep in the car doing dangerous job in vietnam for your ex wife and the milkman in shining armor.

Meanwhile, being ordered around by your boss drops your testosterone level and you start getting bald in your hair (this one is scientific).

If that's your idea of happiness, go ahead work for others for the rest of my life. I realized this 1 year after I graduate and quickly run my business. NEVER will I count on a job again.
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