Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd View Post
WWhat's stopping you from going to work for GS? you know that's where the money is, so go do it?

I never understood the thinking that you, a non college degree 40k ish a year, think yous know what it takes to be a wall street millionaire. What makes you qualified to say " they don't do anything". How do you know what they do? If they make GS 100 million why shouldn't they make 10 million a year?

So you would rather take their wealth away, and arbitrarily give it to someone else, rather than justvtry to achieve their level of success?
I never had a want to work for GS, I used that company as an example. Secondly, I was in college for something other than what I do now and went into 30k worth of debt at the hand of my dad and these laws for "college independence" (I was an independent student at Shawnee State Univ in Portsmouth, OH however, at ITT tech, I couldn't prove my independence) I would of been a graduate working for a tech company of sorts. But... since I was forced to waste 30k and earn no degree, I opted to run with my experience and some luck to work for JPMC. Had I not had the 30k worth of debt and just went with it, I would technically make more.

But my education level obviously has nothing to do with my pay nor does that poor argument mentioned by Newt make sense. I was poor as hell, my family is as well, but I sure know how to wake up and get to work and make money "legally". I went from 14k in 2006 to 40k in 2012 off pure experience.

About this me as a non-college degree holder. All education is; is some other people who did it before you, saving the data and returning it to someone else. No one KNEW how to build a home, but someone tried and learned from it, then other people tried from his initial design and refined it. No one knew how to make a car, a microchip, medicine or glass. But someone tried it and now it's all shared (just for a large price now) with others.

That GS exec may know how to toss money in the wrong places, but I could also toss money around in the wrong places, I wouldnt need to be educated by a school to do that. Also, I could just KNOW enough people and ask for employement. They'd make a way or ask me to perform a few functions leading to the job offer to make things look "normal" and then, WOW, I'm suddenly an employee of GS, ballin like an idiot.