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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1248814)	7/22/2020 2:34:02 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1584071

I don't support affirmative action. Let the best candidate get accepted to Law School - though I am sensitive to the situation where ghetto youngsters often have harder times studying at home than their wealthier peers. I don't see a problem with boards being mandated with at least 20% women. Do you think a man is naturally smarter and a better businessman than a woman? What is being sacrificed by mandating 20% of boards being composed of women? I take it you don't like the law in principle? I am in favor of wealth distribution. I have heard the cries of the wealthy claiming that they are being penalized for being successful. Hogwash! We all live in a human community and there is a limit to how much wealth should be composed in the top 1% when there are people dying who cannot afford medical treatment for cancer and other respiratory diseases. I can agree with you there in abstract thought. But we live in the real world with other people and many have died through no fault of their own from lack of monetary resources. I am vehemently opposed to the Ronald Teagan conservative mantra of survival of the fittest and to hell with everyone else who can't make it. And free college tuition does not entail giving out free degrees that are practically irrelevant in your eyes. I went to school and got a Ph.D. in Philosophy and I turned out fine, financially speaking. Sometimes people choose majors to save their soul or sort out issues that are very troubling in their lives. I got a Ph.D. in Philosophy to try to understand why my youngest brother, at the age of 12+ crossed the Whitestone Expressway at Linden Place and got hit by a car and died. Did I figure out why? Of course, not! But it was still fun and it gave me thinking tools that I have used to this very day to profit. Studying Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, etc, was a lot better than hitting the bottle or drugs. You are so harsh and judgemental when you really don't know why people study what they do. Plus, I got a graduate assistantship ( free tuition) and a monthly stipend of over $500, which was more than enough to live on and study in the 1970s.