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The time in lesson alone isn't really enough to understand things properly, also it's easy for people to just coast along doing no work of their own in lessons, so some form of independent study is needed. And 14 year old nerds who if they could, would drop out of school and play RS/WOW all day won't do it unless it's mandatory - that's why homework is needed.

I meant "far more/less" in terms of how difficult the job is.

So you are saying Hannah Montana is more important than a paramedic or teacher? More important? No. My point is that highly paid jobs are highly paid for a reason (a low number of people can do them).

Haha, log off runescape for a bit and you might learn something about the real world - if what you are trying to say was true (that CEOs do no work and just sit there gaining cash, and that anyone could do it) then it wouldn't be a highly paid job.

What is your proposed solution? Make everyone equal by giving them all brain damage?

So, Miley Cyrus works as hard as more than 490 (average) teachers? I think not. Next time you see someone rich and feel all gooey inside about them, I suggest that you stop for a minute and consider whether what they've actually done is worth your admiration. Money isn't the same as achievement. I don't see you making millions. What has she done? Let's see... -Started a TV show on Disney, currently watched by millions -Kick started a singing career, making billions Besides, being a teacher is the best job in the world. 8-9 hour days, weekends, holidays, and summers. You think singing and dancing and having disney make a TV show for you entitles you to millions? Teachers do not have a nice job, they deal with kids who hate their guts. Oh, and did I mention that teachers are often required to get a masters degree (six years of college) for that privilege? Most of the people who are super rich, have done FAR less then many professions that earn far less. (fire fighters, police, coal miners, etc.) 2 words: supply and demand. If what you are saying was true (that the "super rich" do "FAR less than many professions that earn far less", and the people in said professions could do what the "super rich" do), then they wouldn't be "super rich".

Yes, Finland has no freedom of press, is full of murder, and is a dictatorship, all due to socialism. Since when was Finland communist/socialist?[/hide] Just a few bits of reading about political suppression & genocide in communist/socialist states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_purge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka#Supp ... Opposition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_R ... ersecution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_terrorism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_ ... _Communism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Cast ... hts_record http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_massacre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco#Pol ... Oppression http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Rendition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._suppo ... 93Iraq_war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile_unde ... violations See things aren't so black and white as you would like to make out. Yep, the "far right" and "far left" have a lot of similarities for supposed polar opposites.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_finland Although public spending there is higher than the European average, mixed, not socialist.

Good, people need to stop being stuck in the past.

Yes, Finland has no freedom of press, is full of murder, and is a dictatorship, all due to socialism. Since when was Finland communist/socialist? Just a few bits of reading about political suppression & genocide in communist/socialist states: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_purge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka#Supp ... Opposition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_R ... ersecution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_terrorism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_ ... _Communism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Cast ... hts_record

Left-wing economics require a strong state to enforce, though. (Unless everyone agreed to enforce them off their own accord).

Yeah it's a great system which helps the poor, only 100 million or so have died from it right? A valid jibe, considering democracy has only ever created sunshine, rainbows and happy faces wherever it has gone. Thanks for admitting communism/socialism and democracy cannot coexist? :\ and I consider attempting to deny (or even worse, justify) the mass murder carried out in China, Russia etc just as bad as attempting to deny the holocaust. Funny how you mention the Massacre of and the Holocaust, when they aren't valid points here. They can coexist, provided you break down each system to their simplest forms. The best I could pull from them is as so: Democracy: 2 parties control some of the country, uses a voting system. Communism: One ruling party, but everyone works together and gets their fair share Socialism: Redistribution of wealth, and helping the poor. If communism/socialism is such a nice system which helps the poor, then why has every time communism/socialism has being tried in a country, it has became a dictatorship, and had some sort of mass murder/genocide?

Yeah it's a great system which helps the poor, only 100 million or so have died from it right? A valid jibe, considering democracy has only ever created sunshine, rainbows and happy faces wherever it has gone. Thanks for admitting communism/socialism and democracy cannot coexist? :\ and I consider attempting to deny (or even worse, justify) the mass murder carried out in China, Russia etc just as bad as attempting to deny the holocaust.

About the same depth as A-level from what I understand.

Yeah it's a great system which helps the poor, only 100 million or so have died from it right?

Are you kidding, fire giants are awesome

Jagex doesn't "like" anyone, all they care about is making little kids happy so they can get their parents money.

Get over it or quit - I actually congratulate Jagex for making a quest which isn't as simple as just teleport around a few cities mindlessly.

Supply and demand Get used to it - the price will probably drop by 60%+ in a few weeks when the people sad enough to waste billions on getting it on the first week are bored, and when more of them are in the RS economy.

I'm not sure what's saddest; actually playing for that many years without quitting, lying about playing that many years without quitting or ranting about it on a forum.

Just quit RS, it's a crap game and less than 5% of the players have a mental age over 12.

This pretty much explains it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IB_Diploma_Programme If I got the chance to do it I'd still do A-levels simply because I wouldn't be able to stand having to do subjects I didn't like (especially having to do a language)

From what I understand the workload is much higher than A-levels, don't really know that much about it though.

Factories are largely a product of the Industrial Revolution. And it's not as if many people in the world aren't stuck working in factories making clothes and doing other menial labor tasks. This is a pretty complex and fertile topic which I won't get much into, but I would like people in this thread to think of the results of the Industrial Revolution not just from their own perspective but also from that of the majority of the people in the world who have a life drastically different from that of the average American/European/Australian/etc... In industrial and (post-industrial) countries, even the poorest people are better off now than the richest people where pre-IR, and in undeveloped countries.

No, it doesn't work. The top tax band in the UK used to be something like 90% in the 1970's which might as well have being a maximum wage - and that didn't work very well, rich people just left the country or evaded it in other ways to avoid paying it. (the amount of money raised from income tax actually increased when the top rate was reduced to 40-something%).