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"Real World" Advice from Bill Gates

From: wipeout
Date: Sat Jun 03 2000 - 16:06:52 PDT

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    Bill Gates' money should be divided up and given to teachers for producing
    actual wealth.

    Most of his "rules" I find to be accurate reflections of the "real world,"
    a tragically primitive and authoritarian world that could stand a major
    upgrade; it works about as efficiently as the Windows operating system. ;)
    At least kids can get a taste of a superior social organization while
    they're in school, which may later provide them with a sense of its
    viability and help them change things. Just looking at the "rules" unveils
    the fact these people would be happier if "real life" were more like school
    and less like a global plantation.

    hth,
    Jeff

    (snip)
    >>RULE 1 :Life is not fair; get used to it.
    >>RULE 2:The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect
    >>you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
    >>RULE 3: You will NOT make $40,000. a year right out of high school. You won't
    >>be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both.
    >>RULE 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He
    >>doesn't have tenure.
    >>RULE 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had
    >>a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

    >>RULE 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are
    >>now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and
    >>listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain
    >>forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the
    >>closet in your own room.
    >>RULE 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has
    >>not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as
    >>many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the
    >>slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
    (snip) 

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