The Wealthy Have 'Worked Hard' And Deserve To Keep Their Money

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87. We were tested almost 4 hours a day for a week. The tests included calculus, history, logic and a

Lot of science, social and historical questions. There were a lot of things on the tests, including non-verbal tests and that was how they determined what jobs in the company we would be placed in. They preferred people with some college no matter what they were going to be doing later. Those were on a page of 50 questions. Also, this was 38 years ago, so by today's standards which you may be more familiar with, the questions would be considered crude.

After those I gave more conventional answers but on those two, I was struck by the biased underlying assumptions of those questions. Or maybe just because I was then, and still am, very liberal, the second question aggravated me a lot. I was having trouble getting work because I'd had to drop out of college 6 months before I got my B. S. for family reasons and people kept assuming I would quit and go back to college but I knew it wasn't going to happen.

So I got the job and they sent me for 6 weeks to the first school for the job. It was a chance to join a company union, receive training including further college, more than minimum wage, benefits, get other jobs, travel, move, etc. I got a real lesson in corporate politics, too. It was quite an adventure over all.