People Prefer Easier Ways

             From New York City, its Who Wants to be a Millionaire. On tonight"s show, we have ten contestants from around America who are trying to get rich quick. They don"t care about hard work and strong values -- they just want to become America"s newest success story, with as little effort as is possible.

             Admittedly, if Regis Philbin started the show out like this, it could lose it"s effect, but it"s true, people do not want to do work in order to achieve success.

             The way of life today should be called Who Wants to be a Lazy Bum.

             It seems that people today just don"t want to put forth the effort necessary to earn their own success. As the Sheryl Crow once said, "All [they] want to do is have some fun.".

             In today"s increasingly competitive business and social climate, almost everyone has been tempted at one time or another to cut a corner here or there in order to speed things up or make a greater profit. So really,.

             what"s the harm? I mean, everyone wants some spare time and who wouldn"t want a little more money for a little less work? Well, by trying to continually cut corners or get rich quick, we, as a society, have begun to hurt.

             ourselves. Let"s take a look at how our shortcuts affect everyone. First, how taking the fast track can compromise our integrity through cheating or lying. Then we need to look at how we have forgotten work ethics, and third how taking shortcuts can hurt or even inhibit our creativity and originality.

             First, in the world today, emphasis is placed on a person"s net worth rather than moral values. One survey found that people when people were asked who they would like to be, they were more likely to choose Bill Gates over the Pope. Now we can"t blame it on the fact that some people just look bad in big white hats. In actualiy, many want to have success at whatever the cost, including lying and cheating.

             Let"s look at this scenario:.

             Suppose you were rambling around the Internet and stumbled across a web site devoted to the works of William Shakespeare.

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