It ' s the same sentiment put forth in this Simpson episode . nudeburnsfull . jpg <| sep |> when you bought a strange prof . ks bison right after it got nerfed for $ 8 assuming it would be fixed soon and the price would skyrocket <| sep |> I ' m under the impression that Jesus doesn ' t give a fuck about that . <| sep |> Fucking gorgeous . I hope you like your stuffing with extra meat <| sep |> Or you know 100 % of the steps <| sep |> Ross and the Clipper ' s pick <| sep |> I ' m sorry , but how many career jobs have you worked ? Maybe you aren ' t working a job related to your degree . I did a STEM degree and work in research , I use a whole lot of what I learned . My degree was based around practical application , and I learned how to learn , study , and research . I learned research statistics and research writing , and I currently work in research publications . And when my company had to cut research employees , the guy who always cut corners was the one let go . I ' m able to learn and adjust quickly , and those are skills I learned doing my neuropsych degree . I ' m going back to school to get an advanced degree in bioinformatics , and I am able to get good recommendations from previous employerssupervisors because they recognize my hard work and results . I take pride in that , considering I could have chosen to go on disability and give up on the hard work I have put in . In your comparison , I see Blockbuster as the cheater . They didn ' t do the homework on the evolving market and didn ' t learn what the customers wanted . Companies like Netflix and Redbox took good ideas and grew a successful business from a well executed model . In addition , making things cheaper doesn ' t mean cutting corners , it means you are delivering what people wantneed as efficiently as possible . Any company aims to make profit , and they aim for that even with cheaper goods . Doing something cheaper than someone else takes hard work and determination . And when you try to coast on what you ' ve always done or by just stealing a business model from someone else what blockbuster tried to do as Netflix grew , you eventually fail out . You have to do the work to outcompete others and make things cheaper . Even businesses that exploit loopholes do so with the knowledgemeans to utilize those loopholes . Even if you stealcheat , it ' s not something that is sustainable in the long term . Those you steal from will stop passing on the ideasresources . And in research , I can ' t just take someone else ' s ideas , because everything we work on is being done because it ' s new . I can ' t tell you how things gowent for your studies , but in my career and my experience , I definitely used and use what I learned . I learned how to do statistical programming , writing , and research . Cheating in those would have kept me from learning that . And while someone may not use all the exact information they learned , people do use the skills they gained learning it . Knowing how to learn and perform in those high stress situations , that is a skill . And that is something I use daily . If I had cheated , rather than go through the motions of learning all those skills , I wouldn ' t be performing the way I am . And considering my employers are always willing to recommend or positively review me , I don ' t see myself as ' suffering ' for being that way .