Texas is still at it

Pfft, school. Thanks a lot Plato.:sad:

 

All facts have not been proved. Facts exist irregardles of our knowledge of them. Remember your classes at high school, it was once proved by observation that the Earth was flat, yet some held the "opinion" that it was round.

Yes. A fact that can be substantiated by comparing pay checks. (of course this is only if you consider income and possessions as the "more" in your hypothesis)

Your claim that income is directly proportionate to effort is the "opinion" (hypothesis).

Now, you have an opportunity to put forth evidence and statistics to establish that your hypothesis is indeed a "fact."

I'm all ears.

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And once the opinion was proven, it became accepted as fact.

You can probably determine even more facts by explicitly defining what we could consider to be more or less of.

I don't remember claiming that income was directly proportional to effort, only that effort is much more likely to produce income than no effort at all.

First tell me what you think my hypothesis is.

And unless you're using a speech synthesizer to listen to my text, your eyes would be more effective than your ears. Consider that intended humorously.

 

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Yet socio-economic factors can be at play in how much effort needs to be applied.

The only effort someone who receives an income from inherited wealth may have given is being born, while someone else who didn’t receive any inheritance at all would have to give more of an effort just to live.

Someone that has wealth already and employs others to invest it to gain profits might not have outlaid as much effort as the people he is employing.

And so on and so on.

The amount of effort might not be in proportion to the income.

I mean in the industrial revolution people in factories worked 16 hours a day for six days a week for a pittance. And there are people today that have two jobs just to get by and there are Wal-Mart employers who actually need food stamps to survive.

Try reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich