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

living your dream life in your parents' house, you won't be learning too much. And if you aren't learning, you aren't changing. And if you're not changing, you're not creating.

Well you'd be wrong. You would find typical yet tightly wound college students -- burdened with homework, pressed for time -- cheating their hearts out with ingenious amorality on schoolsucks.com.

constitute as a society. These rules are what enable us to live together. If winning is all that matters, whether in politics, business, or education, then we begin to lost that glue.

"SAVE MY LIFE!!!!" one student screams across the yawning void of cyberspace, his pathetic plea posted on an electronic bulletin board. "Send me a 2,000 word essay on character analysis in Shakespeare's Hamlet now!!! I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR IT."

Which brings me to my next point, our work ethics.

One student named Mike Holmes, who attended Clarkson University, says the key to passing off a pieced- together term paper is concocting a bogus but authoritative-sounding bibliography. He said, "The Romans copied from the Greeks, so why shouldn't we copy from the geeks? Everybody does it . . . A couple of clicks and that was it."

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