Oh, and sorry to bust up the gun debate, but another thought on kids and jobs....

We're adults for a lot of years and a kid for only a few.... so how about letting kids be kids to enjoy their childhood.  I mean, it's not like they haven't got enough to do with schoolwork and study, chores at home, etc, is it?  They have enough pressure on them to succeed at school/college without the pressure of having to formulate a work history before they're old enough to shave.

If a kid wants to work for a bit of extra cash, fine, don't stop them... but if they just want to be a kid, then let them

Yet, the corporate world needs little pieces of paper on it to assuage their fears in an interview to sort out the candidates.

I have only met one HR guy that actually knew what he was doing when he hired people... someone who understood that you are the man in the room, not the man on paper.  I've seen too many people with undeserving yet "amazing" reputations while I served with them in the US Navy(which is a sub branch of the corporations Lockheed Martin and Northrupp Grumman).

  The problem with getting degrees is that once you have earned it, you are satisfied.  If you aren't satisfied after a lifetime of schooling, you have mental issues and will never be satisfied with anything(and deserving of our pity).  After school you want to get lazy and earn some bucks for all the bullshit you just had to sit through.  Why do we tire out future generations with this ridiculously long and unnecessary training period?  To make college administrators more money?  That is what they get paid to do after all, increase restrictions to degrees so that they can keep people in school longer to make more money off of them. The longer you have people jump through hoops, the more readily they will do so. 

Our current system is set up to train overconfident slaves, we build up their confidence with paper and provide their heads with knowledge (but not necessarily the appropriate thought tools to process this knowledge) and then we set them free on a predatory world waiting to exploit them.  I call these people "useful tools" and I personally have used them frequently to get what I wanted.  Its fun, they are smart enough to get the job done yet not smart enough to understand they are being controlled through carefully manipulated choice reduction.  This is much like how games are designed, and I have always enjoyed playing games that allow me to do this, such as Sins of a Solar Empire.  Thank you to the developers of that game, you are some smart twisted fucks, just like me.

How do you achieve choice reduction in Sins?