I leave a week from tomorrow. Agh. Agh. Agh. I don't think I had quite realized that yet. I have to read that stupid book. Agh.
Stupid, stupid, STUPID book. I hate it. It tries to warp my mind. It's the only book I've ever considered damaging. I want to chop it up into little pieces and watch it BLEED - and then burn them. It's a warlock of a book (male witch) and the guy who wrote it is a complete and total NUT.
If anyone out there (reading this) like Fast Food Nation, my apologies. Obviously, we think in very different ways. As far as I'm concerned, using potential theses as supporting arguments, giving suspicious data results (we who do/have done statistics know how temptingly easy it is to make data say what we want it to) and using emotive language just makes me want to (as I've said) cut the book up into little pieces, watch it bleed, and throw it in a fire.
Since I haven't yet finished it, I won't go into complaining without suggesting means of improvement.
Let me say this, though: supposing the top guy were to halve his salary - do something that frees up about $1 millions a year - think of all the low-end employees. An extra dollar a year (if that) isn't going to help. Besides which, they are low-end jobs. Pretty much anyone can fill them -- they don't require skill or training or academic education beyond the ability to read, to work the machines, and to add. Hypothetically speaking, an elementary school kid could do this stuff. That's why it's minimum wage. The people who steal are too lazy or stupid or angry to get a better job -- crime pays even less than fast food.
Stupid, stupid, STUPID book. I hate it. It tries to warp my mind. It's the only book I've ever considered damaging. I want to chop it up into little pieces and watch it BLEED - and then burn them. It's a warlock of a book (male witch) and the guy who wrote it is a complete and total NUT.
If anyone out there (reading this) like Fast Food Nation, my apologies. Obviously, we think in very different ways. As far as I'm concerned, using potential theses as supporting arguments, giving suspicious data results (we who do/have done statistics know how temptingly easy it is to make data say what we want it to) and using emotive language just makes me want to (as I've said) cut the book up into little pieces, watch it bleed, and throw it in a fire.
Since I haven't yet finished it, I won't go into complaining without suggesting means of improvement.
Let me say this, though: supposing the top guy were to halve his salary - do something that frees up about $1 millions a year - think of all the low-end employees. An extra dollar a year (if that) isn't going to help. Besides which, they are low-end jobs. Pretty much anyone can fill them -- they don't require skill or training or academic education beyond the ability to read, to work the machines, and to add. Hypothetically speaking, an elementary school kid could do this stuff. That's why it's minimum wage. The people who steal are too lazy or stupid or angry to get a better job -- crime pays even less than fast food.