Even before then it was widely discussed. There was even a Schoolhouse Rock song, “Tyrannosaurus Debt”.
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I’m a bluegrass jam player and am at the stage where I want to improve my singing/playing and my ‘first time I heard that song’ breaks. Both of those require a fair amount of judicious use of ‘autopilot’ while the brain caches lyrics and chord progressions. The article gave me some ideas, I’ll try to work them into my practice.
What would his body’s inability to keep pace say under socialism or something else? In any case, he is unable to provide for himself and must rely on others. In the case of capitalism, there is less contribution from the general public and more from personal sources ( I.e. his mother ).
Thinking altruistically, it’s more fair to share the burden across all society. But that introduces a danger— bureaucracies lack the accountability that private sources automatically provide. That system will be less efficient and more costly to run, it’s a matter of degree.
It’s a hard problem. Perhaps over time, as we become more and more prosperous, the cost of the inefficiency will be less relevant and we’ll default to the more balanced version.
Just because you think the government isn’t to your liking you shouldn’t declare yourself the implementir of justice and start vandalizing things.
Study American political history, the pendulum goes back and forth. After one sides in power for a while, the other side wins. It happens every time. You shouldn’t act like an impatient child and start breaking things because you imagine the system is broken. It isn’t.
When individuals decide they alone get to decide what’s allowable and what’s not they are proving themselves anti social. The civilised way to make that decision is with the help of the rest of the citizens at the voting booth.
When people decide they get to decide what’s allowable and what’s not, they break the social contract that says the will of the people will prevail. They are acting selfishly, and are damaging society.
Totally decided against vandalism. Violations of the social contract suck.
Edit to invite explanations. If you approve of vandalism to flock cameras, what are your feelings about vandalizing abortion clinics, mosques or opposition political headquarters?
40 years ago I was exiting the US Air Force and selected the University of Minnesota at Morris as my college. It’s a tiny campus, they advertised themselves as a ‘small college, like a mini Ivy League school’.
I went, and enjoyed a semester there, but then fate intervened when my father died. I went home, got sidetracked a while and eventually returned to school at the University of Minnesota at Mankato, chosen because they had an active bowling team. ( I wanted to go pro, but later found out I probably wouldn’t make much money at it. Reality set in. )
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With the right tribal leadership, generational wealth building is a real possibility.
Bowlers hate the idea, but bowlers hated synthetic lane surfaces, urethane lane surfaces, and even lacquer surfaces before that. They also loved their old urethane balls, super soft plastic and dodo balls. All those changes went into place against the wishes of the bowlers, but that didn’t matter. Economics wins, every time.
String setters are on the way.
They’ve got it better than I did at their age.
Maybe it’s worse elsewhere.
Art Garfunkel had studied architecture, and asked Paul Simon to write a song about Wright. Paul Simon didn’t know anything about Wright, so instead he made the song about Garfunkel. What Garfunkel didn’t realize was that Simon was singing about ditching Garfunkel and going solo, which is what happened.
Garfunkel has talked about how painful that realization was. He still performs the song, because it’s just a great tune.
Here’s an example, a Minnesota woman who was fined $1.9 million dollars for 24 downloaded songs.
I’d suspect lobbying from the entertainment industry was a factor.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2009/06/18/woman-ordered-to-pa...
When IBM bought Red Hat in the late twenty teens, they offered us a 10% discount on the stock as an ESPP. At the going price, the stock already had a 5% dividend. It seemed like a great deal.
Our internal mailing list ( the late great Memo List ) had a lively discussion. The majority didn’t see the raging bargain ahead of them. Most seemed to like the safe path— buy the stock, then immediately sell it and invest the proceeds in an index fund. It’s not bad advice, but it deconcentrated your bet.
The index has had some fantastic years since. But I think IBM did even better. The stock went from low one hundreds to over 300 for a while. Even after this big drop, you’d still be far, far ahead. You still get the dividend, too.
In this case the only way to lose was to not play.
“Nobody knows nothing.”
Days could be brutally hot ( easily over 100 F ), but there was little humidity. My transportation was a motorcycle ( with additional heat radiating off the engine ), so mid often feel a little uncomfortable, but it was definitely livable.
Interestingly, homeowners often used evaporative ‘swamp coolers’ instead of AC. A big benefit of low humidity.
Takeaway:
Canada is great cost wise, but poor in wait times.
India offers a smorgasbord— you can pay very little, or you can pay more for better service. You get what you pay for.
The US is worst cost wise, probably second to India in wait time, but the best if you have anything outside a plain vanilla medical condition.
Now you have an interesting story to tell your grateful descendants. :)
My oldest son is a teacher, married to a clerical worker. Both salaries are modest.
They have a nice house, two reliable cars, and eat out several times a week. They are living better than I did at their age, considerably.
We do live in a LCOL area, though.
Protesting is one thing. Going looking for trouble is another.