Relatively speaking High School is a short episode in one's life, unfortunately it occurs during a period of heavy social and physical development. So experiences during this time can often play a major role in how you see the world from that point onward. I'd also agree that as well intentioned as these videos are they are also vastly oversimplifying the reality of how people turn out after HS. Most nerds in HS will not grow up to be multi millionaire tech giants and sometimes feel like even more of a failure when they don't reach that goal.

It wasn't me who first pointed out Simon as a hypocritical "liberal bully."

"Here’s why I assert Simon is a bully. His own words reveal him to be a petty, nasty, mean-spirited guy. “…anything I've ever accomplished as a writer, as somebody doing TV, anything I've ever done in life, down to, like, cleaning up my room, has been accomplished because I was going to show people that they were [bleeped] up, wrong, and that I was the [bleeping] center of the universe and the sooner they got hip to that, the happier they would all be.""

Statist narcissism.

There's as much as you'd like on this. How about...?

"David Simon, a multi-millionaire writer for Time-Warner, one of the largest corporations in the world and a cultural leader, jetted across the globe to speak in front an audience of people with both the financial means and free time about the horrors of “unchecked” capitalism and the tragic loss of the social compact."

"It is rich that a leading light of Hollywood, that of unpaid interns, unmatched inequality of pay, tax-avoidance schemes, exploitation of public subsidies, industry scheming, etc., would criticize a “broken social compact.”"

"Meanwhile, in the real world of unchecked, no-social-compact capitalism, the WSJ is reporting that the “Burger Wars” are expanding to Africa. The heartless capitalist system is stepping in where communism, socialism and other authoritarian systems have failed, bringing with it the digging of new wells, food production systems, jobs, etc. All that awful stuff that comfortable capitalists take for granted."

EDIT: To be clear, I have no specific interest in advocating for Koch, or Simon, or whomever, or in prosecuting them or @radx or anyone else. But I do think this kind of pernicious thinking/bullying can and does spread and causes much harm, even to those engaging in the thinking/bullying, it distorts them in an undesirable way, so I point it out.

Naw man, a boats' referred to as a submarine...if yer Navy-But seriously, any ship or boat used primarily for recreational jaunts...is a yacht.

Why does millionaire frikkin' Seinfeld drive such tiny POS death-mobiles!? He must own at least ONE car that won't get him killed??

You forget, that because of this, he will soon be a millionaire.

Can you point me towards a comparable situation? I can't recall a situation where he was making an emotional plea about an important topic and was ripped for his usual stutter. People like Jon Stewart pick their spots. Comedy is about timing.

I'm not saying you can't get your digs in. I'm saying there's a time and place. Shannon Sharpe's speech impediments and questionable word choice are widely joked about:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cbs-producers-ask-shannon-sharpe-to-use-at-least-3,7044/

That doesn't bother me. He's plenty self deprecating about his "book smahts." My issue is with context. 99 percent of the time you could crack these jokes in his face and he'd laugh right along with you. If you did it here, he'd rip you in half. The guy grew up dirt ass poor in rural georgia. He made himself a millionaire. What does he need to do for the peanut gallery to shut the fuck up for 2 minutes while he talks about something important? If he was being granted a shred of respect, they would.

Costa Rica apparently.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/world/low-wage-costa-ricans-make-baseballs-for-millionaires.html

Context is everything.

King obama said he'd only raise taxes on "millionaires making 250K and above".

Actual result: 77% of Americans' taxes raised. One trillion in new ocrapcare taxes.

A thousand dollar winner! Congrats, dude, according to King obama, that means you're a millionaire!

Looks like heap of fun...howd they get all that gear? Millionaires kids?

Ain't laughin', ain't entertaining-The douche looks tired-Maybe stow his schtick 'n retire a millionaire before he makes it worse for second sons with no sense of humor?

Yawn into obscurity with the rest making light of the developmentally disabled writing their own script for an un-marked grave-...That's you folks!

There are 2,900 millionaires in the UK created by the lottery. I agree, the odds of winning are extremely remote, but you have to be in it to win it. I saw recently a video of a guy in Australia who, having won it once, was re-enacting it-at the same shop- for the cameras. You guessed it, he won again, $250,000. The lottery is a chance to dream once a week and, who knows, it could be you.

.....and the millionaires laughed and laughed and laughed.

Does this mean that he just didn't know that half the country weren't millionaires?

Compared to his tax cuts, buying the young and Hispanic vote was a bargain.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^chilaxe:
Basically he's saying "Be yourself and somehow you'll become successful or something if you're lucky."
Better advice: "Hard work and perseverance beats talent and luck, and successful careers can be reduced down to an algorithm."

Success Algorithm:
Step #1 Have a Rich Daddy.
...


Boise Lib:

Ha. As far as I can tell from the data, though, most millionaires are self-made.

I think everything we need to know about economic outcomes can be learned from this recent NYT article:

Asians' Success in High School Admissions Seen as Issue by Some.

>> ^DuoJet:

Karl Rove has to answer a lot of pissed off millionaires and billionaires. All that money on all those Republican candidates and nothing to show for it. Will they take him to court? Is he finished in politics? Will they have him suicided?

Door number three.