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Originally Posted by flappy
Everyone seems to want to avoid a reasonable hypothesis, except for the guy that said "sell drugs". Now look, I realise that some of you are tenured educrats, either active or retired, and believe you will be taken care of forever. That's a great child-like attitude and no one wants to make fun of that.
I'm trying to wade thru all the non-answers and realise no one thinks it's possible to live on $150/week,even tho the majority of the planet lives on much less than that.
I bet there is a place in the rust belt, with 20% unemployment rates, where one could actually survive on $150. I'll answer my own questions from now on.
" The intellect is a lower state of awareness." ( Choose any authority on figure as the author, so you will be forced to believe it.)
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surely you know that when you were our age, many were telling people the comfort and safety we appeared to then live in was a mere illusion, with the threat of communist warheads looming every day. were the people who got passed that *possibility* and enjoyed what they had rather than fearing how it could all be stripped away truly child-like?
i don't think anyone believes they're going to be "taken care of" -- not how you mean it, anyway -- forever, but that doesn't preclude a sense of one always being able to take care of oneself. anyway, what i'm getting at is this: how does what you're saying differ from the "imminent threats" of the past that never materialized? sure, maybe it was ignorant of them to be so child-like, but there's a difference between being child-like and being immature. in my view the people who claim the sky is falling were and still are the immature ones. you can tell because immature people always have a miserable outlook