# Shift Happens
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shift-happens/44475
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [March 5, 2008, 8:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shift-happens/44475 "2008-03-05T08:38:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shift-happens/44475/21 "2008-03-05T10:44:00Z")
> [@Nikuk](#):
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> Jay… this is not new news.
No, it’s not. But most people when they think of China think of billions of people working at dead end factory jobs for pennies a day. Simple statements like the 25% one help people wrap their minds around how large of a population China actually has.
The biggest problem in this country is we have a huge population who simply don’t value education. They think some politician is going to come up with a magic policy to save them from the world markets.
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2008, 10:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shift-happens/44475/22 "2008-03-05T10:47:52Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> No, it’s not. But most people when they think of China think of billions of people working at dead end factory jobs for pennies a day. Simple statements like that help people wrap their minds around how large of a population China actually has.
Now we’re getting somewhere…
“Most People” Shop @ walmart, believe that a Camry is a foreign car, believe that US colleges are top tier, hell - most people are excited about tax stim checks…
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shift-happens/44475/23 "2008-03-05T10:50:07Z")
> [@JayS](#):
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> The biggest problem in this country is we have a huge population who simply don’t value education. They think some politician is going to come up with a magic policy to save them from the world markets.
Why shouldn’t they expect the politicos to save them? Theres a vast precedent of just that… even in just the last few years.
Mortgages; Katrina; Baseball; Tax cuts… all things that fit perfectly in the instant gratification American lifestyle where personal responsibility is non-existent.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2008, 10:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shift-happens/44475/24 "2008-03-05T10:52:53Z")
> [@Nikuk](#):
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> Now we’re getting somewhere…
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> “Most People” Shop @ walmart, believe that a Camry is a foreign car, believe that US colleges are top tier, hell - most people are excited about tax stim checks…
Which is exactly why I liked this video. There was nothing there I didn’t already know, but it was done in a way that makes it very easy for people to grasp.
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### Author:  [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shift-happens/44475/25 "2008-03-05T10:55:34Z")
O I C. You were presenting it as something new & inspirational, so I thought maybe you had drank the koolaid.
Okay, so the masses devalue education. How should that be addressed? $4000 tax incentives for tuition? Or maybe a reality show?
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### Author:  [@SkunkApe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SkunkApe)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2008, 11:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/shift-happens/44475/26 "2008-03-05T11:02:14Z")
> [@Geoff](#):
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> xoxoxooxox
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> ISLY
haha ILYT \<3
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