An economics professor
at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student
before, but had recently failed an entire class.
*That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor
and no one would be rich, a great equaliser*
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on
this plan : All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same
grade !
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who
studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied
little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted
a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering,
blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for
the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them
that communism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the
effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no
one will try or want to succeed.
*These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to
this experiment :*
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating
the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person
must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to
work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other
half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going
to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation !
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