Why are so many people lazy in America? (minimum wage, illegal, conspiracy)
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It was a business management degree. Personally, I don't see a need for such a degree--you can either do it, or you can't. You don't need someone else's opinion of the information you need to have to become a manager.
But unfortunately, employers use the degree as a bar, a requirement. And in some professions, the gov't does.
So, for now, the upper education institutes have a lock on many forms of upward mobility.
Jacksonian Democracy attacked the idea of Law Schools specifically, if I recall correctly, but it didn't last.
De Facto situation on the ground is, higher level degrees from *higher ranked schools* confer more earning power, on average.
Right or wrong, it is a fact. To believe otherwise would be an error in judgement.
If you have all that intelligence you proport to have then you are simply wasting life, I suspect it is different entirely, but whatever, LOL
How am I "wasting life"? I exercise my body through work, which is an admirable thing in and of itself, and I exercise my mind on my own time and on my own dime.
Mental activity isn't difficult, so it's reserved for leisure. Puzzles, mainly.
It is to me. When I spend a few hours thinking deeply while reading a book, after I'm done, I'm mentally tired. Granted, I don't FEEL tired but I'm still tired.
He meant it is not mentally exhausting to read a book with large print and pictures of bunnies.
Before I cast any stones at anyone else, I'll stone myself. Yes I have gotten lazy. I used to be a hard worker interestingly enough, but ever since the economy changed and I became "unemployable", I've just fallen off.
I'm trying to get it back on track. (For one thing I am getting myself in shape) Trying to maybe get a business off the ground. But...
If I can just get the lead out...
That said, compared to last century, I'd say we are not quite as active as we used to be.
The media and politicians are always pandering and telling us that Americans are the hardest working people in the world. Yes, some Americans are very hard working and there are lots of impressive people in our country. But in general I find most people I meet to be very lazy. In fact I come in contact with more lazy people all the time. I teach at a college in the evening and so many students are lazy and will do the absolute minimum to pass. During the day I work as a manager at a very good company and we are constantly having trouble with lazy employees who lack creativity, skills and drive.
Do you believe that Americans of all ages are becoming lazy and are Americans still the hardest working people in the world?
Schools a joke!
HS is a daycare, to get you into college.
College is getting you a better job as long as you don't fail... maybe not a better job, but at least a nice pay-grade...
I work hard, but there's a time for everything, and being lazy has a time and place...like relaxing, sort of
You think high school is a daycare? Wait until you get into management in business, and your job is to babysit the children that work for you. That's why I got right back out again.
Why are so many people lazy in America? Because these days, that's what they've been taught since childhood. If you aren't being pacified by television, then the internet is taking care of you. It's all over the media and impossible to avoid--everyone has an excuse for everything, and nobody assumes responsibility for their actions unless forced to.
What's surprising is that there are still people in this country who aren't lazy.
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