<p>Flipping burgers is just as hard as engineering. Its all about like, respecting people's different skills and like their culturally relative values, not what the capitalist machine wants, man...burger flippers are just as crucial as astro-physicists, i bet an astrophysicist doesnt know how long the hours at bruger king are. If we start saying different people are smarter than we might hurt people's feelings and that's not cool. </p>
<p>Wow, I'm so glad I took a sociology course or I could never have thought of this, not even after that last bong rip.</p>
<p>I agree I respect tradesmen a lot more than doctors and lawyers. I give no respect to a Doctor or a Lawyer. Schooling is not all that hard and is quite a bit easier than working.</p>
<p>Somebody read Nickle and Dimed, or whatever that book is called:) I am soo tired today, man! </p>
<p>I think that working at Micky D's and trying to live off that pay, is 100% harder than just doing "school". Being a member of the working poor must be something else.</p>
<p>I'm not sure about fast food employees, but I have a heck of a lot of respect for farmers. Humans can do quite well without lawyers, but it's hard to go without food. :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>Well, I do not know about that. But, I would imagine that living off of fast food pay would be a great deal more difficult than doing schoolwork for any major at all.</p>
<p>And, a lot of fast food joints are open until the early morning of the next day. And, that is not counting the time one would have to spend cleaning, after the last customer has been served and all of that. </p>
<p>Next time you are up studying all blessed day and night, think of the poor old folks at your local fast food resturant. You will feel better really quick.</p>
<p>Nickle and Dimed does nothing for me. I'm sorry, I guess I'm not a real Democrat, just a really ****ed off Libertarian, who believes in rugged individualism.</p>
<p>We also don't really need lawyers. We keep pumping them out and that means more lawsuits for all of us. Yay! Lawsuits for everyone!!</p>
<p>I'm in the process of reading Nickel and Dimed and I get a kick out of the introspective 'questions for discussion' at the end of the book. I think I could have written Nickel and Dimed myself using 3 words and the same amount of pages - 'BIG GOVERNMENT YAY!'. Repeat another 34,000 times and that's what it feels like.</p>
<p>I don't think many "sarcasm detectors" are turned on today, are they?</p>
<p>Burger flipping is not analagous to working in the humanities, my friend. Engineering is great and all, but it doesn't work without being funnelled through business, politics, law, and the like. Sure you can make a great piece of technology, but sans a mechanism of marketing it, it'll never be a success.</p>
<p>Besides, uselessness is common to all ranges of knowledge. I can name quite the number of computer programs and engineered items that do next-to-nothing for the world-- do we really need light-show air fresheners or iPods? Every field can be valuable or worthless. There are luminaries who genuinely improve the world in each.</p>
<p>This thread is so typical of a cliche college student's idealist, liberal attitude. </p>
<p>Sure, fast food workers are crucial to society. But that argument could be made about anything. It's just like a movie--you couldn't have just Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz"--you need lots of extras milling around in the background. But if there were just a bunch of extras and no Dorothy, that would be a problem too. </p>
<p>The way I see it, if there were a crisis in the United States and people were dying and committing crimes and wreaking havoc everywhere, who would you rather have around taking control? A person who is an expert burger flipper or a neurosurgeon who studied his brains out for probably upwards of 10 years? A french fry expert or a lawyer knew enough about government to set up a make-shift society to control the crazies?</p>
<p>Not to sure how a fast food worker is as important as an engineer, since it requires an engineer to construct the building, power the building, design the equipment, design the process for producing the frozen french fries, designing the transport system that took the food to the McDonalds, ect. In my opinion the two most important groups are engineers and teachers. And yes that includes liberal arts majors, unless they are going to teach.</p>
<p>even if the original post was sarcastic, i think the sentiment is pretty true...</p>
<p>it's so funny to see kids on here all, "oh, sob, sigh, i'm an engineering student at MIT, my life is hell...it's so hard to get a good GPA..." people would kill to be in your shoes, so instead of whining about how the liberal arts majors have it easier, think about how tough it is to live off of minimum wage and put your great minds to something ****ing useful, haha.</p>
<p>Oh yeah and nobody forced you to be an engineering major at MIT...you could just as easily have coasted through college at Harvard majoring like prelaw.</p>
<p>Well engineers are the Most critical people in our world. Look around you, if you stripped away all engineers, you would have nothing and would be sitting in a field or a forest, with nothing around you.</p>