On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:18:45PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > On 3/6/07, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On 03/06/07 16:46, Al Eridani wrote: > > >> It's no myth. Educated people in general don't want to be in the > >military, > >> they'd rather attend classes at the university. It's the same in the US > >> and in Europe. > > > >Since only 2.5% of the military-age US population is in the > >military, you are, by definition, correct. > > No, the percentage has nothing to do with it. The percentage of high-school > graduates in prestigious universities is lower still, but I don't think > that you > want to make the argument that they'd rather be someplace else. > > The military has to offer incentives to get educated people to join; > otherwise, they would find themselves without soldiers. > s/military/company/ s/soldiers/employees/ Everyone needs some incentive. This is not unique to the military. > The prestigious universities have to put up barriers to limit the influx of > educated people; otherwise, they would find themselves overwhelmed. > You are partly wrong here. The prestigious universities both offer incentives *and* also impose barriers. Their incentive is prestige. It is such a strong incentive, that they can't possibly accept everyone who is attracted by it, and so they impose barriers. You see the same thing in many sectors of the economy now, where wages are good and there are many people seeking few available jobs. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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