Lifer, I know plenty of people who are scamming the system, not working, and getting paid. It's sometimes tempting to turn them in, but I have more important things to do.
If someone can work but won't, screw him.
I worked 32 hours a week while going to a vocational school full time (which I paid for myself). I made $5.86 at the job, which was decent money for driving a delivery truck.
When I graduated, I got a job as a photographer's assistant...for $3.25 an hour.
However, due to my efforts, I was at $15,000 a year by the following year (1979), and by 1987 was making $45,000.
And there's a lot of young people I know today who are working long hours to get ahead.
I have a niece who's now a doctor. She went through all of her schooling on scholarships. She's also of the same political/social mindset that you seem to have.
One Easter Sunday, at the dinner table, as she was spouting off about the lack of fairness, I'd had enough.
"Angie," I said, "all through school you were getting a 4-point GPA, and there were other students who were just getting 2-point GPA's. Why couldn't you be fair, not have been so studious, so that the grading curve would have been lowered? You could still have gotten a 3-point GPA, and the other students would have risen to 3 points as well."
She got really testy. "I earned my grades," she said.
Touche'
