From: sean@pages.com (Sean Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Student discounts - cheapskate weasels should count there blessings
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:02:30 GMT
Organization: Banzai Research Institute

In article <1992Mar30.054542.24644@cs.brown.edu> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F.  
Antony) writes:
> In article <1992Mar29.183612.1130@panik.questor.wimsey.bc.ca>  
asmith@panik.questor.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
> >The bottom line...
> >Students often have little or no money. Students often get special treatment  
in  
> >light of that fact. Small business people often have little or no money.  
They  
> >get no special treatment. Students should consider themselves fortunate in  
many  
> >ways. I don't mind when they "request" a special discounted price on  
software,  
> >I get truly outraged when the "demand" it.
> 
> Well, a student has no choice than not to earn a lot of money, since
> he not only spends his time learning instead of producing, but even
> PAYS TO BE ABLE TO WORK i.e. spell tuition.
> A student does a favor to society by elevating at least the
> international competitiveness of a country by having qualified labour
> force and at best by helping the country to flourish culturally.
> But for this service he has to take many disadvantages in monetary
> respect. So it is perfectly fair to recognize that by providing
> discounts. 
> 
Get a life, you wooley headed fool! I'm sick of hearing the plight of the  
students, whining like spoiled children and screaming about the "evil  
capitalist world" they live in. You sound like you don't know squat about the  
real world.

> (Small) Businesses however exist to provide services FOR PROFIT. The
> market decides if these services are worth money or not. This is a
> free country. If you don't earn money with your enterprise there are
> three reasons and three consequences:
> a) You're too dumb => quit the job,
>                       THEN
> 			  a) go to business school 

Land of the losers
>                       OR 
>                           b) seek employment
Which one day you will, my bucko

> b) You're a startup => it takes a price if you want to become filthy
> 		       rich, just wait.
Or you're pursuing a dream, or your trying to feed the mouths of hungry people  
around the family table, or a myriad of other factors.

> c) Your services/products are not what the market wants
>                     => switch business
Hide in school.

> 
> The bottom line...
>  a business that does not pay well can go down the tube, I don't care.
> If you like what you are doing, be an artist, hobbyist or what else,
> but don't complain. You already HAD your education, it's up to you to
> do now what you want with it. If you don't earn enough then change
> your situation and don't bitch.
> Students by definition can't earn money (except maybe with drug
> dealing...). They will not be students forever and then face the same
> situation as anyone who is not a student right now.
> 
> Enough said.
> 
> Ronald 
>  
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> "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one  
persists
> in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on  
the
> unreasonable man."   G.B. Shaw   |  rca@cs.brown.edu or  
antony@browncog.bitnet

Ah, you poor well read, intellectual snob. It's easy to see the reason I have  
to side with Steak Face. Students whine. And their educators join in. The  
argument is old and boring. You took the bait he laid out for you, and you're  
choking on it.

Why can't students realize that they get the best breaks? Life's a tough one.  
Don't spend it pissing and moaning about the student software discounts from  
the industry. DO SOMETHING USEFUL!!!

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