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In reply to the discussion: "If you made 110 points on my test then you can afford to give some to the person who made 72" [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,053 posts)"Success" in life is not always measured by how much money you make. How hard one works does not always equal wealth. Some of the hardest working people in this country currently reside below the poverty line. Some of the laziest people in the country currently live in mansions.
So income is not necessarily successfully earned as one successfully earns a grade.
Moreover, grades are on a fixed scale. One cannot earn higher than an A+. If we are talking numerical grades, one cannot earn higher than a 100 spare a few extra credit points. Yet people can earn billions and billions of dollars. So it's not like someone who gets 110 points giving a few points to a person making a 72. It's more like someone getting a 11110 giving a few points to a person making a 72.
But playing ball with the ridiculously flawed analogy:
You should ask how they earned that 110. Were the person who got the 110 given extra study sessions that the person who got the 72 wasn't offered? Was he/she given more time than the others? Was he/she given answers in advance? Was he/she the child of the teacher, and the teacher gave him/her the 110 points because the teacher wanted to see him/her earn a good grade?