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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is the measure here always what will land a job with a Fortune 500 company. Very few people I know would want to work in such a place. There's nothing wrong with it, I just can't imagine judging a college by this.

What about most graduate degrees and university/college teaching jobs? What about research grants? What about Pullitzer Prizes? I could go on and on, and all of these examples are far more appealing to me than working at a Fortune 500 company.[/quote]

I agree with this 100%.  I am so much more impressed by people who have used their good education to do something creative or beneficial to the world over becoming a banker or a lawyer.[/quote]

This is such BS - coming from a place of ENVY.  The Doctor or Lawyer (or CEO) ends up paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in taxes that are essential for American society to function.  This is far more important and beneficial than those who pursue "feel good" professions that would be impossible if not for the 70% of all tax revenue paid by the top 10% of earners. [/quote]

Your tax money is more important than the hospice worker who holds your mothers hand and wipes her tears in her dying days? [/quote]

If you think a country full of potential hospice workers is preferable to our country try India or the Philippines.  There will always be those suited to hospice work, but what makes this country (and other developed countries) more pleasant to live in is the wealth redistributed from the select few who are capable of assisting in the creation of wealth. [/quote]

How did we get to "a country full of hospice workers?"  You have clearly never had a loved one in hospice or you would know how trained and skilled and important these people are.  And, by the way, hospice is a western movement. If they have hospices in India and the Philippines it would be a new phenomenon and probably only for the wealthy. I think your point is that the brown people can take care of the dying? Niiiiice.

I wrote the original post quoted and I am a lawyer. And I have no interest in working for a Fortune 500 company or a major law firm.  No envy there -- I had great grades in law school and a coveted clerkship, so I could have made it happen. It is completely alien to me how people can work so hard just to make money.  I feel much better about working for the public interest.  You can write that off as "feel good" work, but, yeah, I feel good about it. No problem there.

As for taxes, we have some of the lowest rates in the world and the wealthiest people pay a far lower percentage of their income than the middle class.  Remember Mitt Romney's tax rate of 13%?  How many of you have a tax rate of 13%? Come whining to me when the wealthy pay their fair share.[/quote]

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