60% support socialism 70% don't want to pay higher taxes Total disconnect

They believe in capitalism and they don't even know it.

The last guy nailed it. We must all push for equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.

It’s crazy how privileged rich people support socialism

I live in Europe. Healthcare is NOT free, we are just higher taxed.

"I don't want to sacrifice what -I- worked really hard for!" Surprise, you're a capitalist!

It's unbelievable how when people's bad ideas are exposed, they still maintain their position.

There was a professor in India who had done that and redistributed grades when he sensed that everyone in this class where socialists. Changed their minds

“Ive lost a lot of sleep to get my grades” “I worked hard for my grades.” “I made a lot of sacrifices for my grades.” Have you ever owned a business?

These people "I study for my grade it's mine. Oh you work for your money you have to share".

"Most rich people didn't actually earn their wealth." People don't earn their intelligence either, naturally intelligent people have a built-in head start in life, and that's not fair either.

Watching these guys advocate for socialism, only to perfectly illustrate how unfair it is a sentence later. 👏👏✊🏿🙈

A Socialist will always say: "Yes, take from the rich just don't take it from ME" =))

"That's different because I'm studying all day for my grade" Yeah And I'm working all day for my money

“You’re basically profiting off of my hard work FOR you, so who’s really the bad guy here?” Thank you.

People sound so stupid when they get caught but they still try to keep with their stance.

"Yes, rich people should give us their stuff." "You can't have my GPA, I worked for it... =( "

Supporting socialism as long as they're the ones profiting from it. Classic.

I tend to stay out of arguments like this, but I honestly believe there's inherently a flaw in the question you're asking. I'm a student at the moment, one with a 4.00 that I've held steady for two years now, I work my ass off to keep it that way and would be immensely frustrated to be forced to "share" it with students with lesser grades. However there's a couple of things in my mind that separates what you're calling 'grade disparity' from wealth disparity; 1. There's a cap on how high my GPA can get. I as a student cannot end up with say,,, a 7.5 GPA, there's nothing I can do to bump it up that high. The school stops caring after A+, even if I accumulate 120% in a course (something I've actually done before using cart loads of extra credit) that 20% doesn't do anything to my grade, and if there had been a way for me to send that 20% to the students in my class who needed a grade boost I would have done it in a heart beat. Why? Because I don't need that 20% when I've already got my A. Now when you look at wealth there is absolutely no cap to just how wealthy you can be, and someone of our favorite entrepreneurs the ones we Laud for having built themselves from the ground up, (Musk, Bezos, ect) have so much accumulated wealth they could never possibly spend it all in their lifetime even if they quit working tomorrow. When myself and many others are talking about helping out people at the bottom, to relate it to grades again, we're not asking to bring people with 100% in a class down to an 80, we're asking to use the excess 20 of someone earning 120%. 2. Generational Grades are not a thing, if my father went to college and got straight As, I don't get to start out with all the points he accumulated during his time at college, same if he pulled straight Fs, it's a clean slate no matter what. The same cannot be said for wealth, some people are lucky enough to have wonderful supportive families that assist them in their lives when they stumble, they offer monetary support during college, or make funds for first born grandchildren. Others are born into circumstance where they are the ones having to assist their families even when they are not in a stable financial position themselves, circumstance is a throw if the dice that we have to acknowledge when it comes to wealth disparity. 3. If you get an F in a course, youre not going to die. I know this argument probably seems silly but hear me out. If I fail a class, I don't get credit, I'll likely have to retake the course if it's a general studies class, or if I'm extra lucky it's an elective and I've learned something new about my aptitudes in a certain area. This will be stressful for me and may affect my mental health, but overall I will survive and get through it. If I go bankrupt I have fucked myself and *hard*. It's not impossible to come back from this position especially if you're lucky enough to have the family support touched on in my second point, but if not? You're looking at bloated homelessness programs, food insecurity, lack of access to medical care, heightened risk of violent crime and any number of other factors that on their own and especially in combination could genuinely get you killed. In conclusion, your argument is fundamentally flawed, these students are reluctant to "share" their GPA because for all of them, this isn't a resource that they can have "extra" of, for them giving to someone else means going without for themselves. This is not the case with the sort of socialism the majority of rational individuals advocate for, most of us, are asking for the excess wealth that these billionaires are never even going to touch let alone go without over. Next, none of these kids inherited good or bad grades from their parents what they have is based off of the quality of work that they have turned in as individuals. This again is not the case with money, which can be inherited from prior generations just like debt can. And lastly a bad grade isn't going to kill you, it just isn't. So for those of us working hard to maintain a GPA, we are reluctant to offer our limited resources to those who can, at the end of the day retake the course. Unlike with real life and real money where there is no re-do.

I respect this guy for not shaming them and helping them understand the concepts instead of some people that turn it into a public roast

"I wouldn't sacrifice the stuff I worked hard for, but I'm all for other people sacrificing stuff they worked hard for."

*_WE WANT COMMUNISM_* ok. Give me your money. *_NEVERMIND_*

Socialism for thee but not for me. Classic. Typical failure of the socialist model. Everyone ends up working to the lowest common denominator.

“That’s like, completely different. I’m studying all day for my grades.” Yeah and people work all day just for the government to take their taxes and put them into welfare

When it was something of THEIRS, they ALL instantly became free market capitalists. Love it.

Everyone is socialist until they are stealing your money instead of others money 😂😂😂

As a European I pay twice as much taxes as I would in the US - and I love it. I experience the advantages of social welfare (anybody who calls social welfare "socialism" has no idea what socialism is) in my daily life and would never want to live in a system like in the US: - I do not need to worry very much about financing my children´s education. They just get it, any school and any university is almost for free. (Of course I still pay housing and food etc.) - I do not need to worry about healthcare for me and my family. We just have it. When my kid breaks a leg, we go to hospital, when I need an ambulance I call it, when somebody suffers a chronical disease he is taken care of, all life long. - In total the US healthcare system costs almost twice as much per citizen, I guess because a lot of private companies make profit from it, somebody has to pay that in the end. Despite being much cheaper our "socialist" healthcare seems to be more effective, everybody has an insurance, child mortality is 50% lower, and life expectancy is 4 years higher than in the US. - I hardly see any homeless people in my country. - Crime rates are much lower than in the US, and part of the reason certainly is more equality, less people struggling for survival, better average education. In the US the homicide rate is 5 times higher than in European countries. There is not a single "no-go-area" anywhere, not even in poorer neighborhoods, my wife and my daughters can walk around safely anywhere in the city in the middle of the night. - I took a payed parental leave of 12months, my wife even for 2 years. etc. etc. Our welfare system is far from perfect. It is not the paradise. Many details could be better. But exchange it for a system like in the US? No, never, absolutely never.

the last guy made a good point...we should strive for more equal oppurtunities as opposed to outcomes.

"They dont earn it, they're pressing buttons on a computer " Then why dont you press those same buttons, if it's so easy.

“I support socialism” “No I wouldn’t give my stuff and time to people who don’t earn it” 🤔

Hysterical people actually think this is apples to apples. Fatal flaw: More money = more earning potential, it is often inherited & there is no limit to how much one can accumulate. High GPA ≠ more GPA earning potential, can’t be inherited & has a 4.0 maximum.

Hard comparison; i’m not for one for socialism, but it’s a sharing of an asset versus sharing an academic rating. It’s akin to sharing your credit score versus sharing your money. One changes your eligibility for certain things where as the other simply deduces from your assets. Aside from that, the student’s explanations were still hypocritical and fallacious.

The sad thing: they still don’t get it 🤦🏼‍♀️

“ everyone’s a socialist until they get a job and have to pay taxes” hahaha these people have much to learn.

GPA is an equitable system. Grading policies are standardized and applied equally. Wealth distribution and compensation for work is not the same.

Having a low income does not mean you don’t work hard

"your GPA has nothing to do with your quality of life" then why are you going to college if not to improve your life!!!

funny how quickly answers change when all of a sudden THEY'RE the ones that have to give up their labor and efforts

"I have family in Europe. They go to College for free." No they don't.

This just isn’t what socialism is. GPAs represent the academic value of an individual, just like how a wage would represent the production value of a worker under socialism. The gpa system as it is now is arguably more “socialist” than what this guy is suggesting. Since the people interviewed in this video want fair grade distribution based on academic value they are in favour of socialism and not capitalism like so many in the comment section who have no idea of what socialism is, seem to think.

This is just a GPA. Imagine how they would feel if it was money.

No, not GIVING a chunk of your gpa.... Having a chunk of your gpa TAKEN from you and redistributed to others.

Having moved from the US to Canada… You don’t want socialism. My husband earns LESS on his paychecks if he tries to work overtime, because it puts him at a “higher tax bracket.” Even though we really need the money, he literally cannot work to earn more. So we have to keep making the same budget work, no matter how much living costs rise. THAT is what socialism means, kids. See how you like it when you actually have to live it.

These students don't have a clue what they are saying and how serious socialism can be

“I’m studying hard all day for my gpa” “I work hard all day working for my money”

These “educated” kids seem completely unaware of how they contradict themselves. It’s truly dumbfounding.

I definitely don't think this is a perfect correlation. One might say that a billionaire has a gpa of a 1000 when you only need a gpa of 4. Also gpa can mostly be correlated to hours spent but all jobs have a different hourly pay and this create a different disparity. But this example does do a good job at hitting the core of not wanting to give up some you've earned

the large difference is that people require money to survive and people don’t require a high gpa to survive

"Do you believe in socialism?" "Yes!" "Would you give away your GPA those at the bottom?" "Uhh..." *cannot fast travel while enemies are nearby*

"I wouldn't be cool with giving up my own things to help others but I am VERY eager to take things from others"

0:30 gotta love how one of the most socialist idea he comes up with is affordable health care, something that is a basic right in every other developed country. The US is truly lost.

bro these people fr think billionaires and multimillionaires work harder for their money than the average american 😭

"Socialism: let's do it! As long as we are giving away your stuff, but not my stuff." - Every socialist.

“I’m studying all day for my grades” Yeah, and Americans are working all day to support their families, and don’t want their money taken away.

GPA and wealth are not comparable. There is a fixed maximum attainable GPA of 4.0, and not matter how hard you work a 4.0 max is all you get. Wealth is infinite... If you could earn more than 4.0, but everything more than 4.0 is useless and cannot go on your resume, one of 3 things can happen: 1) people will either end up working EXACTLY for 4.0 2) work harder, get more than 4.0, and claim just the 4.0 max officially 3) get more than 4.0, and pass on the GPA more than 4.0 to others (may be only a small percentage of people may pick the 3rd option) If wealth can be capped at a million dollars per year (assuming a million $$$ is more than enough for anyone to lead a "happy" lifestyle) no matter how hard you work, you MAY see the same effect. Since wealth is infinite, it may not psychologically work the same way. However, I am NOT advocating for a wealth/income cap. All I'm saying is that GPA and wealth are not necessarily comparable...

As far as I'm aware GPAs are used to rank students by how well they've done in school, if you give points from students with high GPAs to students with low GPAs while maintaining the ranking order it would have no real effect other than to force everyone who utilises GPAs to adjust how they use them. Alternatively if you adjust GPAs so all students end up with the same GPA it becomes meaningless. A good analogy to get people thinking about Socialism vs Capitalism but missleading none the less.

I can’t believe the hypocrisy. “I studied so hard though.” How can people not understand logic?

I'm from South America and socialism is the worst thing that could've ever happened

That’s not how it works. People at the same college have the same opportunities, whereas the rich and the poor do not. Socialism is about distributing wealth among the workers. GPA sharing would be giving to the lazy, and socialism is about providing opportunities for everybody to work, and rewarding work appropriately.

Intelligence is as inheritable as money, so there goes that argument too.

" I'm like studying all day for my grade" WTF I'm working all day for my money

"Those who want socialism believe that THEY will be the ones who rise to power when, in reality, they are the first ones lined up against the wall and shot." - Yuri Bezmenov (former KGB officer)

An genuinely interesting little experiment, but like all arguments from analogy, its force depends upon solvency of the analogy itself. And, in this case, the analogy falls apart upon closer inspection. Income is theoretically unlimited. You can always earn more, and you can always replenish losses incurred through taxation. University GPAs, by contrast, have a fixed upper limit; no matter how hard you study or how well you perform in class, you can't earn higher than a 4.0. More importantly, once you drop below a 4.0, it is impossible, even in principle, to return your GPA to its previous level. The two situations are thus disanalogous, and logical consistency never requires applying like principles to unlike situations.

The young man hit the nail on the head without even realizing it; the interviewer asked “ what’s the difference between earning a high GPA and giving it away versus earning a lot of money and giving it away?l The young man started his answer with “I feel…” That’s exactly right: feeling instead of thinking.

Scary the quality of individuals coming out of college today.

Girl: That's completely different, cus I'm studying all day for my grade... There you have it folks.

These colleges should be fumigated and we need real teachers. Just team STEM and some needful subjects like economics and accounting. We are going too far.

I support socialism as long as nothing is taken from me.

You can almost smell their embarrassment when they realize their hypocrisy.

" I'm studying all day for my grade" ...uhhh people work all day for their money.

This was a brilliant idea! I hope these students can see the hypocrisy. Freedom of opportunity is what capitalism is all about.

You don’t starve if you have a bad GPA.

"I'm like studying all day for my grade" I guess the rich just find their money on the side of the road

It's amusing to see how attitudes change when the equation directly affects them.

"That's different because, you now, it affects me negatively... I only support other people giving me stuff, not me giving my stuff to other people..."

A supreme lack of deductive reasoning from these students.

"I've lost a lot of sleep so..." This girl has no idea what it takes to own a business.

"the stock market takes zero work" Soo why aren't you a millionaire yet?

There is no scarcity with GPA lmao

I don’t think that’s a completely accurate comparison. When it comes to GPA, everyone starts school with zero, you can’t inherit a GPA or be gifted a higher GPA. It’s a completely fair starting point for everyone. With wealth, not everyone is starting from the same point, so it’s inherently unfair.

My seventh grade science teacher always said: “fair isn’t equal”

"I'm studying all day for my grade" "I earned that". Now you're getting it.

I’m convinced “college educated” simply means “idiot”. How embarrassing.

If we changed the name of capitalism to "like totally literally the super bestest" every millennial would support it

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money." ~ M.Thatcher

Typical Socialist, as long as someone else is being deprived of their property, they're all for it.

Interesting how those who have not worked for 40 years to create wealth, want to share in the wealth of those of us who have. Seems kind of like jealousy to me.

yeah…we all share our GPAs with each other in Europe (dripping sarcasm). This is like asking people ‘do you eat meat’ and then say ‘so basically you want me dead so you can eat me’. You already pay taxes in the US. and you DO pay taxes for things you may never use - like a road in a nearby place which you will never walk or drive on. Your healthcare system is simply dominated by huge companies which really love the way things are now, its as simple as that.

"the stock market is just someone touching a button on the computer" if that was true 95% of traders wouldn't fail.

"That's completely different!" - well yeah, it's different because your GPA in school is not money, but it's totally the same because GPA is your "income" produced by your hard work in college. What really gets me is that they start sounding awful "right-wing" once it comes directly out of their asses.

That guy at (0:41) is the epitome of snively. Imagine his feelings running the show. "I'm not denying that fact either, but for the regular working person, you know...". What?! We know what, college student? When were you ever a regular working person? Always so generous with other people's resources.

"Would you give away the fruits of your hard work in a capitalist society where each person fights for survival and justifying their existence?"

"I'm studying all day" ,people who work 16 hour days for years to get to a million dollars👁️👄👁️

"Take from the rich!" "Who is rich?" "Anyone who has more than me!"

Two reasons this is a poor comparison. GPAs are finite, and gpas are not earned off the work of others. If a realistic question was asked, such as if someone did your homework for you all semester would you allow them .2 of your gpa. Many more would say yes. Capitalism is like a group project where a guy says I’ll buy all the materials you guys do the work and I’ll collect 90% of the credit.

These poor kids are so naive .

Lesson learned: "it's always fair to take away from people with money unless the rich guy is me."

cog·ni·tive dis·so·nance noun the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.

This shows a fundamental lack of knowledge as to what Socialism actually is. Stupid question.

Because students are profiting of the works of others and not by only studying by theirselves /s This is a bad fucking comparision