ExxonMobil CEO defends profits

[Lestat]

I believe in America, its far more complex then your parents' income and eductation. But for a moment let's take your assertion at face value. We do know what one dominant factor in determining a person's risk of dropping-out or missing school. Let's start by completely abolishing that factor first.

Oh I just realized you probably meant alcohol use right? Since I am willing to bet that 99% of school dropouts have used alcohol. I believe that to be a false causation/correlation.

Sort of like the example that towns with larger number of churches also have larger number of bars, so they must somehow be related. They are not. The correlation for both is population size.

 

[-SD-]

I just rant the numbers and if exxon gave every single dollar of their profits to every single american, each person would get $3.60.

Let them keep their fucking profits.

 

[dabuffguy]

"I saw someone characterize our profits the other day in terms of $1,400 in profit per second. Well, they also need to understand we paid $4,000 a second in taxes, and we spent $15,000 a second in cost," Tillerson told ABC News' Charles Gibson. "We spend $1 billion a day just running our business."

I hate our government. mmmkay?

 

[mrplunkey]

Oh I just realized you probably meant alcohol use right? Since I am willing to bet that 99% of school dropouts have used alcohol. I believe that to be a false causation/correlation.

Yeah, "I am willing to bet" and "I believe" stuff too, but that doesn't make them fact. I know some people who are so silly that "they bet" some supreme being created the world in six days and "they believe" he rested on the seventh. As many lessons as we've been given in good science here on this board, you'd think we'd be past things like that this.

Find a credible study that looked at the relationship between alcohol consumption and missing or dropping-out of school.

Then let the study show where alcohol is the dominant factor in determining missing or dropping-out of school.

Then show that the amount of alcohol used proportionately increased their chances of missing or dropping-out of school.

Sort of like the example that towns with larger number of churches also have larger number of bars, so they must somehow be related. They are not. The correlation for both is population size.

You know, "I bet" NIH scientests are pretty good at understanding spurious relationships and "I believe" that's now taught at the high-school / undergraduate level.

 

[EnderJE]

Yeah, "I am willing to bet" and "I believe" stuff too, but that doesn't make them fact. I know some people who are so silly that "they bet" some supreme being created the world in six days and "they believe" he rested on the seventh. As many lessons as we've been given in good science here on this board, you'd think we'd be past things like that this.

Find a credible study that looked at the relationship between alcohol consumption and missing or dropping-out of school.

Then let the study show where alcohol is the dominant factor in determining missing or dropping-out of school.

Then show that the amount of alcohol used proportionately increased their chances of missing or dropping-out of school.



You know, "I bet" NIH scientests are pretty good at understanding spurious relationships and "I believe" that's now taught at the high-school / undergraduate level.

Wait, so you're saying that alcohol is one of the causes for dropouts?

 

[Razorguns]

Not all, but many. At least in California.

Here is where I draw this conclusion from.

I make really good money, at least I think so, and my job is easy! Air conditioned office, flexible hours, it can be mentally taxing at times, but generally its pretty smooth sailing.

Constrast that with the people here in California picking lettuce, strawberries, and tomatoes. Day in and day out that work is physically demanding, boring as hell (which takes a huge mental toll) and they get paid about 10% of what I do!

Then look at the senior management of my company, some of these guys take in TENS OF MILLIONS per year, is their job that hard? Not at all. They are generally smart, assertive people that make consistently good (and profitable) decisions. They are highly educated in most cases, have a certain charisma and presence that lends themselves to leadership roles.

maybe I am the exception, but I'll admit it, I don't work even half as hard as someone who washes cars or picks produce for a living. If someone offered me a raise to take one of those jobs I'd decline in a heartbeat!

you twerp.

the REASON you make big bucks in that comfy office doing dick all but surf ef all day - is because you busted your ass in college to LEARN MARKETABLE SKILLS which you make money off now.

The rest of the 'hard workers' didn't. And thus there salary reflects that. Remember the phrase 'work SMART not hard'? Did you pay attentoin in class?

lol @ corporate america is now racist. Govt is racist. Corporations are racist. Anybody else now who isn't claimed to be racist?

I guess Walmart shoudl pay it's workers $35/hr because hey 'they work hard'.

Have fun with your $85 t-shirt.

r

 

[needtogetarmy]

I want to get a baseball bat, dose someone in oil, and then beat them and set them on fire.

Anyone want to join me?

 

[javaguru]

I just rant the numbers and if exxon gave every single dollar of their profits to every single american, each person would get $3.60.

Let them keep their fucking profits.

I bet the stockholders, average Americans, concur.

 

[mrplunkey]

Wait, so you're saying that alcohol is one of the causes for dropouts?

I've never seen a study that says it does. I have, however, cited an NIH-funded study that shows pot use increases a person's chances of dropping out of school and/or missing school. The use of pot was shown to be a dominant factor in the study and its response was graded -- so the more they smoked, the greater the chances they would drop-out or miss school.

In scientific studies, when you find a dominant factor that demonstrates a graded response, its pretty much game over -- you've found your culprit.

I just enjoy the fact that citing education and educational opportunities is a liberal favorite for justifying wealth distribution. But then those same liberals won't stamp-out a dominant factor in limiting someone's educational progress. They basically say: "We're all about redistributing other people's money to the downtrodden, but if you ask us to put down the blunt we'll go into deep denial over its role in making those people downtrodden in the first place."

 

[-SD-]

I bet the stockholders, average Americans, concur.

[WillFerrellOldSchool] But it feels so good!, when the taxes hit your lips its so good! [/WillFerrellOldSchool]