I've had a conversation with several coworkers trying to get them to connect the dots between "you get paid by the hour" - "if you produce more per hour, you don't get paid more" - "the owners keep the profits" - "they'll never let you just work less"
I also don't have a lot of money for fun because no one is hiring because all the psychotic C-suite think AI is going to replace everyone. Or they think they can just squeeze labor harder and use AI as an excuse.
What do you call the action of putting their grades together like this, without the sentences you put after it? (this is the most important question of this comment).
Why are you stuck on "cannot" when the point of the idiom is about the (repeat pun) fruitlessness of comparing things by inappropriate standards?
You clearly can come up with a way to score a math test by the standards of an art class, but that is not typically a useful endeavor.
I worked with several former teachers in my software career. They were all smart patient people. Software jobs making shit for rich people to get richer paid more than double for less work.
I knew another teacher who was on food stamps because her salary was so low.
Our society values stupid shit. It invests in stupid shit. We are lead by assholes and fools.
Are you confusing "can't" and "can, but is fruitless" (pun intended)?
Like, if someone says to you "you can't put nails in with a screwdriver", are you going to say "You totally can. Just whack the nail with the handle. I don't see the problem".
Or, like, "You can't eat crayons" do you respond "sure you can. chew it up and eat it. i don't see the problem. it's just like a cookie"
You could go down that train of thought, but you'll find it impossible to make any decisions for fear of making things worse. "Should I put out this fire in my kitchen? No, what if the house has to burn down to stop double-mecha-hitler from being born??" is not a useful way of thinking.
"This orange sucks. I can't just bite into it and enjoy it like an apple." That's not a sensible assessment of the orange. That's applying the desired attributes of an apple to an orange.
I think that part of our problems come from people being too polite. Someone will say something completely stupid, and people don't want to make a fuss so they let it slide. Peer pressure is like the only thing that changes minds.
Fuck Microsoft. It's easy to not buy their shit. I've been doing it all day.