| Pharaoh said: @Garcian Smith Please tell me you aren't serious? Are you trying to dispute me? It's called a job. College students, unless they are dumb, make around $10-$20 bucks an hour. Any standard internship will pay this, as well as waiting tables. At even 12 dollars an hour 12 * 40 = $ 480. Adults make seriously more than this. Did I mention inflation? I don't think so. I am a business major so it is my job to know about this. Internal and external pressures contribute to increases in the aggregate Consumer Price Index, changes in Unskilled Wage Earnings, Gross Domestic Product Per Capita, I will not go into this and all the complexitities of economics. The inflation rate,(not inflation there is no such thing) is just one of many factors that contribute to increases in the aggregate price level. So accordingly, $299 when the PS2 was released has the same purchasing power, not value, as ~$430 in today's terms. So shut up and don't try to bash someone you don't know. |
College kid who doesn't know anything about the real world ITT.
First, I dare you to work 40 hours a week and be a full-time student. No, seriously. Try it and tell me how long it takes before you go insane.
Second, what kind of college kid can make $20 an hour, especially when most college kids have zero (or next to zero) real-world job experience and skills? I have a college degree, not to mention experience in a professional school, and I'm lucky if i can make $12/hour working full-time. What jobs have you been working where you make $20/hour as a student, especially in an internship?
Third, you'd expect that a BUSINESS MAJOR would know a little something about a tiny, niggling point called the income tax. Even if a student could make $480/week, $480 gross != $480 net.
Finally, get off it already. Throwing around a bunch of technical terms does not a good argument make. If you want to say you're right, then explain why you're right, and stop acting like we're a bunch of lowly, ignorant plebeians.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
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