Poor CEOs cannot live on $500,000 a year

[Marelo]

I'm not sure where we're supposed to find the sympathy here. Honestly. Surely even the people who are losing this money don't actually think this way. Surely?

I read that article, and I just could not find myself thinking that it was anything other than a satire. Surely it was a sarcastic editorial! No, no, it's entirely serious.

All I have to say is, what. the. fuck. If that's how our upper class view the world, maybe our country really is doomed to follow Rome's example.

Edit:

Going on a tangent here, I went to a private high school but a publicly funded college, and the quality of education I got in high school was light years ahead of what I got in college. In high school, I had teachers that were competent and knowledgeable in their subjects, made their material clear and easy to understand, and made their expectations of you equally clear. And even if that wasn't enough, they'd always be willing to meet with you and give you help personally. It was enough to make me *gasp* enjoy some of my classes. You know what I got in college? Idiot teachers. Half of them were reading from a manual the whole time, and all of them had a lot to say about the popular political matters at the time... except that it didn't have anything to do with the class they were supposed to be teaching. The college had a lot of programs designed to help students that were falling behind, but these programs didn't do anything: they only served to make the students temporarily feel better about themselves and to give the school a good image. So, to me, being forced to go to a public school just because your dad is too successful doesn't really ring to the ears.

Going along with your tangent: I'm currently attending a publicly funded institution, and I have not encountered the problems you have. Maybe I've just been lucky with the professors in my classes, but they pretty much all fit the description of your high school teachers, whereas my high school teachers (also publicly funded) fit the description of your college professors.

The thing is, I don't think the quality of the teacher should matter at the college level. If a student really wants to learn the subject, they can do so despite a terrible teacher. I did in high school, many times over, and I'm not superhuman by any means. That's not to say that a good teacher is not an advantage; merely that I don't see a bad teacher as much of a hindrance to a good student.

And to keep this a bit more on-topic, I don't think that education at certain places should cost the ridiculous premiums it does currently. A good student from a state institution is perfectly capable of performing on the same level as a good student in a private institution. It's like paying $200 for Diesel brand jeans. Ridiculous. The difference between state and private comes when you look at the average students... The people who aren't particularly motivated to learn anyway. They are the ones who pick up more in private schools versus state schools. I see that as a parenting problem more than a problem with state schools; in other words, I think parents should work harder to make their kids better students.