Intel - stopping poor children from getting computers

[vic20]

The poor should learn to work a little harder and smarter instead of wasting so much time complaining about how the rich are keeping them down. They would not be so poor and could buy their own computers

Oh? That's funny, the degree I want to obtain from University costs $52,000, which I can't afford. Excuse me for trying to better myself, but unfortunately I'm just part of a system that's designed to keep the poor poor and the rich rich.

Working harder? Tell that to the Sri Lankan fisherman who just finished an 18hr boat trip and now has to walk home in the mountains 20kms away because the 2004 tsunami washed away his house near the beach and the money that was supposed to help him rebuild it got lost in beuracratic red-tape.

As for working smarter? Well people can't do that if they can't afford the education to find out how, can they?...

I can only hope that when karma catches up to you it's going to be merciful; lest you break a bone from the fall to rock-bottom.

In the US, an education from a major University can be had for far less than $52,000. In state tuition rates for the middle tier of major Universities is not that much, and you can get a loan to float the whole cost as well as housing. You won't be able to go to any university you want, but you will get a quality education. I haven't even started on the trade schools and community colleges, which can provide even less expensive education, though obviously not of major University grade.

With this said, if you're in another country, I don't know the cost of higher education.

Nicely put. I'll go a step further and say that a full four year degree could be acquired for $0 out of your own pocket. How? Get a technical cert, put in your time building experience, then get with a company willing to pay for your tuition. Happens all the time...

P.S. Ok, so it will cost you some $$ to get a technical cert, but we're talking <$10k in most cases.

P.S.S. Die Thread Die!!!!

It's either that or you move to Alberta like so many people from Canada's east coast do.

I've lost count of the guys I've met in their early 20s who already OWN (as in paid for) a $250,000 house already. They are working in the oil patch with no post-secondary education. Some didn't even graduate high school.

I've also met a lot of young guys (and a few girls ) here making 70-80K as journeyman welders. A few of them even have their own trucks with welders in the box.

There's lots of ways to make money. But thats here. Life is so much different elsewhere.