Rodney Dangerfield's First Economics Class

and v-ball we've got a lot to cover and time is short there are two kinds of people in business today the quick and the dead so rather than waste your time this semester with a lot of useless theories we're going to jump right in with both feet and create a fictional company from the ground up we'll construct our physical plant we'll set up an efficient administrative and executive structure then we'll manufacture our product and market it I think you'll find it very interesting and a lot of fun so let's start by looking at construction costs of our new factory oh what's the product that is immaterial for the purposes of our discussion here but if it makes you happy let's say we're making tape recorders tape recorders are you kidding the Japs will kill us on a lamer course okay fine then let's just say they're widgets what's a widget it's a fictional product it doesn't matter does it matter till I put a badge and easy take it easy Stu first day on the board you will see a cost analysis for construction of a 30,000 square foot facility which will encompass both Factory and office space and is fully serviced by all utilities a railroad spur line and a four Bay shipping dock all the whole of why bill hey you're better off Lisa got a buck in a quarter buck and a half a square foot take your down payment and put it into CDs or something else you can roll over every couple of months Thank You mr. melon but we'll be concentrating on finance a little later in the term for the time being let's just concentrate on the construction figures shall we you will see the final bottom line requires the factoring in of not just the material and construction costs but also the architects fees and the costs of land servicing oh you left out a bunch of stuff oh really like what for instance well first of all you're gonna have to grease local politicians for the sudden zoning problems that always that is the kickback to the carpenters and if you plan on using any cement this building I'm sure the Teamsters like to have a little chat with you and that'll cost you oh and I've got a little something for the building inspectors there is a long term course such as waste disposal I don't know if you are familiar with who runs that business but I assure you it's not the Boy Scouts that'll be quite enough mr. melon maybe bribes and kickbacks and mafia payoffs are how you do business but they are not part of the legitimate business world and they're certainly not part of anything I am teaching in this class do I make myself clear sorry just trying to help that's all now notwithstanding mr. melons input the next question for us is where to build our Factory how about Fantasyland

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Keywords: Rodney, Dangerfield, Back, to, School

Id: YlVDGmjz7eM

Length: 3min 2sec (182 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 11 2008

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Classic scene. But is Mr. Helper right??? He's not wrong about how business works here!

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"Hey, you're tall and fat!?!"

"yea? You're short and ugly."

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Dangerfield what an OG