Wish Sandwiches lol!! I've ate a few of those. Whenever I told my dad I wanted something or "I wish I could have that" he would always say, "You can want/wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up faster."
I think people confuse energy and technology. Technology will have diminishing returns as our energy sources run out and global warming causes turmoil. Many people ( I'm not saying you) always conjure up a mythical "they" that will "invent something" to save our lifestyles. I'm skeptical but then again I'm bias since I hate Western style consumerism anyway.
Hey ItsAllOver I don't mind a good rant if it's on point as yours is. Coal needs to be eliminated IMO it's too polluting. Again this will require us to simply use less and consume less. However you say "I don't think that people will feel a real decrease in western-style standard of living" I have to completely disagree with that. I think people confuse energy and technology. Technology will have diminishing returns as our energy sources run out and global warming causes turmoil. Many people ( I'm not saying you) always conjure up a mythical "they" that will "invent something" to save our lifestyles. I'm skeptical but then again I'm bias since I hate Western style consumerism anyway.
Hey zenoonez, I disagree.
When it was all said and done with the banker bailout cost us 23 trillion. They could have paid off every american home mortgage for 11 trillion.
It's supply and demand. Too many undereducated people in this country competing for low skill jobs. Everyone wants to be a baller but no one wants to suffer for it. Most kids are more interested in drinking, smoking pot and hand jobs in high school than taking AP calculus. Except for the asian students. Which is why they'll be running the show more and more.
If you have a degree in something useful like engineering or accounting or medicine you'll do fine.
Check out these excerpts. Leave behind your preconceptions and see what you think.
"So you think money is the root of all evil?"
The Trial of Hank Rearden
Peace
Oh, and I'll second the need for understanding of Austrian economics and how it differs from Keynesian economics which is practiced today and brought us the concept that government economic stimulus is effective, which it simply cannot be.
I saw this type of shit(un-employment/economy) coming back in Prez. Reagans dayze.
The puppets that have been stuck up on the hill in Wash. DC. are all idiot mouthpieces
of an expanding Government...as well as the rest of the world also.
I hoarded my cash, dropped a few thou into gold, bought some cheap mountain
property and went off-grid. I no longer need a J.O.B. to live, I produce everything
I use myself. I pay me.
Sorry if this seems dick-ass hard, but have any of you whiners thought about
being SELF-RELIANT and doing for yourselves instead of boo-hoo ing and wishing
someone would come along and pat your pampers and GIVE it all to you on a
silver platter with a gold spoon stuck up yer butt??
Yeah, yeah...I know...ya all say that you are willing to work for a living, but what you
are really saying is that you want someone to take care of you so you dont have to.
All most of you know how to do is work for the other person and make them rich,
not yourself. Ask yourself this: What in hell would you do IF there was NEVER another
job to be had? Huh?
I cut wood everyday. I water livestock everyday. I make my own soap. I grow my
own veggies. I butcher my own meats. I hunt. I produce my own electricty.
I collect rainwater for bathing and I dug my own pond by hand.
NO-ONE does shit for me. NO-ONE pays my way. I WORK FOR ME!!!!!
Try it, you might like being your own person and FREE for a change and not tied
to Civilized propaganda bullshit, like you seem to be.
Not meaning to flame, or bruise egos, but I mean...for real...what do you expect?
Someone to come along and make all the bad go away?
Live FREE as a real person, or DIE as a debtor slave.
Your choice....
peace
Indeed. Keynesian economics is a farce - it's been proven time and time again to fail. The history books don't tell you this though, they are too highly influenced by the social elite that rely upon it for their power.