Economics Professor has Students Experiment with Socialism...

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  1. Libhater

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    An Economics professor made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

    The Professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan"...All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A...(substituting grades for dollars-something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

    After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

    The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

    As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

    To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the Professor told them that socialism would also fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that.

    Five best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:


    1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

    2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

    3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that government does not first take from somebody else.

    4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

    5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
     
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    this is old
    this is fake
    a classroom is not a country
    I also think your beloved nazism as failed too so,

    NEXT
     
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    Well, if this bit of tired copypasta was true, that professor would be a moron. His proposed method of testing socialism doesn't even accurately model socialism (which isn't possible using grades)... which is based on the fundamental idea of fair pay for fair work.

    I almost wish that an economics professor would actually run this experiment. I have a feeling the results would be very different from the chain letter's proposed results. I have a hard time believing that there would not be significant social pressures involved that would push the grades higher.
     
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    I don't get why stupid people seem to think that Obama, or even 95% of liberals in America, want straight up communism like that.

    Liberal =/= everyone shares money and there's no poor or rich... You've got to be a super liberal for that. Most people here aren't...
     
  5. randlepatrickmcmurphy

    randlepatrickmcmurphy Well-Known Member

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    Has libhater ever had an original thought? Just askin'.

    Hey, libhater, you forgot to link to the website you ripped that off from, which is a violation of forum rules. But I like ya, so I got your back on this.

    http://observerjournal.com/2009/07/09/an-economics-professor-.aspx?ref=rss

     
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    Hey Genius, you don't need a link in the Political Opinions and Beliefs forum.

    LOL


    Oh and he quoted the professor and used quotes to do it.

    [​IMG]
     
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    On a side note, libhater, I am interested in this subject. Maybe you could pass on the name of the economics professor who conducted this study so I could ask him for details on his methodology and perhaps even copies of his results?
     
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    Actually you kind of do for this kind of thing (not officially but it would help). Otherwise this could just be another one of those made up email spam things or anything else.

    Not that it matters to me. I don't care if this is real or fake. It's dumb either way. :)
     
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    As I said, its not required.

    Thats why there is google. :date:
     
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  10. randlepatrickmcmurphy

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    Actually, you do.

    I'll try to reighn in my genius for a moment and humbly remind you that when you copypasta something and don't give a link to the source you are basically taking credit for something you didn't write. AKA, Fraud.
     
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    I have something better for you to illustrate the anecdote in the OP perfectly.

    Did you know our Pilgrims attempted Socialism initially? And their attempts extremely closely mirrored the mores found in the OP's anecdote?

    Do you wish to have links to substantiate this fact?

    Just testing your purported honest interest in this topic. You let me know.
     
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    Other than the Texmaster, I didn't see where any of you libs understood the overriding message of how socialism works and just how detrimental it is to the Capitalist society we have here in America. Surely a couple of you libs could combine a couple fried brain cells together to capture the essence of the professor's message concerning the failed socialism ideology. Its just that kind of ingenuity from the professor that is lacking in today's government run schools of unionized teachers who wish to dumb down critical thinking so that everyone is socially and educationally equal if you will. :twisted:
     
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    The entire OP is a lift job from an old meme that has been running around the internets forever.

    Forum rules require that non-original posts such as the one used to create this thread at least credit the original source.

    So....

    LOL@ your SUPER fail.

    [​IMG]
     
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    Where is your reference/citation for this urban myth story?
     
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    randlepatrickmcmurphy Well-Known Member

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    You mean the professor that is part of a parable and doesn't actually exist?
     
  16. Libhater

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    Leave it to you libs to continue skewing the message. Well, the American people are quite tired of living under socialized obamunism and the antidote correction back to unfettered American Capitalism is slated for January of next year.
     
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    I'll now redirect my point to you.

    Would you like a real-life example of the Pilgrims attempting Socialism? Did you know that they did - and failed, in the exact same manner as the OP's anecdote?

    Did you know that? Do you care?
     
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    Feel free to ignore me and I will feel free to report this thread. Bye
     
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