"In reality, fairness is not so much about the actual distribution of loot as it is about the psychology of how you feel about it. That’s important to understand because the rich won’t give up their cash unless they feel they are getting something in return. And so far, saving the country doesn’t seem to be enough of a payoff."
"The poor Joneses! Mr. Jones can’t afford that new suit he really wanted! The children won’t be able to go to Ayn Rand summer camp! You’re all despicable, and if my working-class, single parent mother saw you on the street I would hope she’d punch you in the face."
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Down and Out on $250,000 a Year - TheFiscalTimes.com
Wherein a commentor decries the attempt to show how hard the life and tax burden of a rich american family are. zing.
wikileaks didn’t embarrass government. they embarrassed journalists.
"I say yes when I am asked if I have a Ph.D. in sociology. I say yes when I am asked if I have professional training in industrial/organizational psychology. I say yes when asked if I have ever designed a perpetual-motion-powered time machine and documented my efforts in a peer-reviewed journal."
— The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
GRUM - Through The Night (via EnergyProductionRec)
This is how i feel about my friend sean.
"It’s hard to tell young people that universities recognize that their idealism and energy — and lack of information — are an exploitable resource. For universities, the impact of graduate programs on the lives of those students is an acceptable externality, like dumping toxins into a river. If you cannot find a tenure-track position, your university will no longer court you; it will pretend you do not exist and will act as if your unemployability is entirely your fault. It will make you feel ashamed, and you will probably just disappear, convinced it’s right rather than that the game was rigged from the beginning."
— Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education
"I would simply suggest that you ask those who tell you about the wonders of “theory” and “philosophy” to justify their claims —- to do what people in physics, math, biology, linguistics, and other fields are happy to do when someone asks them, seriously, what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn’t already obvious, etc. These are fair requests for anyone to make. If they can’t be met, then I’d suggest recourse to Hume’s advice in similar circumstances: to the flames."
"We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
— – ALBERT EINSTEIN
(Source: www-01.ibm.com)
