Things sure have turned to shit, eh?
See - the things you detest about your "country" have always been there, greed, lust, abuse of power, half-witted leaders, oppression, etc etc. It's been there since day 1, just like it exists in every country on the planet. Cause that's just the way we (the human race) are.
What changes is your perspective, your worldview. That's really what your talking about. It works that way for everything.
Ask my well-to-do Aunt about America and she'll gush on and on about the beautiful Fall scenery by their vacation home on the east coast. Ask my friend Vladimir who left Crotia for the USofA with the shirt on his back some years ago and now owns his own business and does quite well for himself here and he'll tell you it's the blessed land of opportunity. Ask my friend from High School who works as a deputy sheriff and he'll tell you it's a big ball of shit filled with depraved criminals.
It's all about your perspective. If you focus on the bad then it's all bad for you, if you focus on the good it's nirvana. Truth is it's neither black nor white, rather it's all a bunch of different shades of gray. Always has been, always will be.
Sure the tides may ebb and flow but that's nothing new, it's been that way for hundreds of years and will be that way until some half-witted dope pushes the wrong button and the human race vanishes. And then it won't matter anymore.
So cheers and happy new year ya big lug.
Warmest regards, --Your best pal Bob
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You could, until very recently, work your way up from nothing. But in the last 20 years, the least of us have remained the least of us.
Minimum wage? "I would pay you less but then it would be illegal."
Yeah, things were much worse previous to the 1930s. But we hit this bizarre age of reason and exploration and possibility, and all we've done with it is ugly, irresponsible, and in some ways amazing despite the powers that be. Like this, here: we'd not ever have known one another without the military and DARPA.
Anyhow. Yeah, you can think it's always been bad if it makes you feel better.
Weirdo.
I like to think that our possibility is larger, and we've damn near been there, and we can maybe get there again but, you know what?
I don't know if I can believe that.
Yeah.
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Today our poor have cable TV. Even a percentage of them have flat screen LCD TV's too, I'd wager. Compare that to the truly poor in a third world country. I've been to Indonesia and I've seen poor, we've got nothing on them.
But yeah - the rich get richer and the poor stay poor, but for the few really motivated and talented. That's cause the rich make the rules and they make them in their favour. I don't think that's anything new though.
It's interesting to me, as I've been looking at houses round these parts. There are a ton of old bungalows built right after WWII that are about 1,000 to 1,200 sq foot with single car garages (Only the rich had TWO cars back then!). That seems to have been the norm in those days, at least around here. Compare that to your average new construction house around here which is upwards of twice that size. Sure the middle class today needs two incomes to "survive" but we're living much much better today too.
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