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" ... Back to the Matros/Bilen paper. The researchers first suggest that teachers who give online exams should not “curve” their grades based on how a student scored relative to other students. Instead, they should grade based on how a student performed compared to a pre-set standard. Curving grades, they say, punishes students who don’t cheat, increasing the pressure on honest students to skirt the rules. ... "
" ... College Admissions – “The higher education system now… punishes high school kids for working, because the rewards in high school for college admissions are not working related, they are community service… (and) extracurricular activities. ... "
" ... Implicit in all of this is that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft (the five companies that accounted for so much of the S&P rally in modern times) aren’t great companies as much as they’re the beneficiaries of an “easy” Fed. Hmmm. That's interesting when we remember that amid good times for the companies mentioned, former high flyers like GE, Sears and Ford saw their shares plummet. Apparently the Fed is not only “easy,” but it’s surgically easy and tight at the same time such that it punishes some while lifting others. Don’t worry, the argument gets more suspect the more you think about it. ... "
" ... People are afraid to fail or be perceived negatively because they do not want to risk what they have. Being the first can be good, but the consequences sometimes can be scary too, as a new idea could be mind-blowing and start a chain reaction. That’s why most people tend to stay quiet and avoid risky proposals to maintain the status quo and reduce the suffering of being rejected or punished, especially if the company punishes taking risks. ... "
" ... What keeps this system built on structural inequalities and hierarchical power structures that richly rewards the elites and often punishes, humiliates and underpays the workers underneath who make those riches possible, is the dream that one might be exceptional and rise to the top. ... "