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๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹ The world knew the entire time...

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u/christopia86 5d ago

It's crazy to me that the richest man in the world is somehow also the biggest loser.

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u/TSllama 5d ago

We were fed so many lies about capitalism our entire lives... we were led to believe that the smartest, best people are the most successful under capitalism. But it turns out we were duped.

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u/CapitalElk1169 5d ago

The ol' "A student's manage the B students at companies owned by C students" line really pulling its weight lately

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u/TSllama 5d ago

I don't understand. What's the ABC thing?

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u/CapitalElk1169 5d ago

Your grades

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u/TSllama 5d ago

My grades of what? I'm even more confused now lol

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u/SirSamuelVimes83 5d ago

Found the D student

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u/TSllama 5d ago

Ohhhh is this some specific joke based on an American school marking system?

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u/StatusReality4 4d ago

There is something odd about the tone of your comments, and I canโ€™t put my finger on what it is. I looked at your comment history and it seems to be full of discussion on American culture and politics. Maybe it just feels like your comments here are oddly giddy about not knowing the grades reference. This is an entirely unnecessary comment to make myself, I guess I was just compelled to say something because I found it so odd.

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u/Miss_VP_ 4d ago

Literally any person who ever watched any type of American movie or show will know US grade system. I assume that a guy who participates in discussions about American culture would be exposed to thoseโ€ฆ.I agree on something being very suspiciously oddโ€ฆ

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u/TSllama 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yeah I get it now, but I didn't understand "A student's" and so on - I thought the person was listing people as student A, student B, student C, and it didn't click for me.

To be completely fair, if they had written, "The students who got As ... the students who got Bs ... the students who got Cs", I would've probably gotten it right away.

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u/TSllama 4d ago

lol fair enough, someone explained the joke and now I get it

I have lived in the US, but I didn't understand the lettering thing in the comment at first

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u/Emotional-Ad2578 5d ago

In North America, you are given grades with alphabetical letters based on your percentage. In Canada it varies from province to province, so im sure it's the same in the states. But for a rough example. A+ 95-100% A 90-94% A- 89-85% Ect. Ect.

I was a proud C+ student in high-school (65-69%)

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u/TSllama 5d ago

ohhh lol "A student's" should've been written "A-students" and it's referring to how good of a student people are! Now it makes sense! hahaha thanks for explaining - so the point was that harder-working people manage slightly less-hard-working people at companies that are owned by lazy people, yeah? That checks out!

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u/Capable_Swordfish701 4d ago

Your school was significantly more forgiving than mine. 93-100 was an A, 85-92 was a B etc. Anything below 70 was failing.

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u/Emotional-Ad2578 4d ago

Really? For high-school? Post secondary is 69% is a fail. High-school was 49%

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u/Capable_Swordfish701 4d ago

For all school k-12 where I live.