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awledd

10 years ago

Why is that? If everything is great, everybody should be HAppY!

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wayneh

10 years ago

I enjoyed the article you linked to. That is an interesting statistic on median family incomes going up. I wonder how big a part the media plays in making us feel that things are getting worse along with along with anyone else who want to get something from us.

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HeySal

10 years ago

Some things ARE awesome and some thing really do suck. Neither ignoring nor complaining help with those - you have to actually DO something about them.

Claude - I am one of those who don't like the gov knowing where I am every second of every day. There are some things that even an optimist should know are not okay. I help to fix that injustice by writing to legislators and by leaving my cell-phone, which I do NOT like anyway, at home when I go out.

Cell phone technology might be amazing, but I don't like the health effects, or being tracked so it stays home. Now that might be "whining" to some people. To me it's "choice". I would be extremely upset if I were told I HAD to carry it, but I have a choice.

As far as how well off everyone is............uh......whatever. I'll be taking some items down to the local food bank this weekend. We have masses of homeless out here. Social services are giving out tents again, but the good news is that people aren't arrested here for living in tents.

As far as all this guy's stats. They're crunched to hell and back. I could do that to stats, too, but I don't find that optimistic at all. I find it more akin to ostrich/sand syndrome. Optimism is "yikes - look what happened. We can fix this" not "la la la, it isn't happening".

Sorry - my life does not suck even though I found the article to be mumbo jumbo. Even though I don't like to carry a cell phone, and even though I hate the idea of surveillance of the average citizen. Even though it's harder to make ends meet even though all the little graphs that can be crunched tell me it isn't. My life doesn't suck. If someone is complaining about their life and stuff in general..........they need to look in a mirror and make the appropriate changes from there not stick their head in the sand and just switch all the rattling from "this sucks" to "how great it all is".

Edit: LOL Claude - you caught up with the page I was on while I was typing.

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tagiscom 10 years ago

Yep, the interesting thing about wealthy IM, who can generate more and more, is life is great and gets better everyday!

But they usually have to go through tough times to get there.

I suspect that it is the not knowing, in the interim that is heart wrenching, or if you knew that you would become wealthy online eventually would you be depressed, while trying to get there?

Probably both, on one side you would think, l have lost some friends and been at this for 3 years, without any scalable results, but on the other hand l have 3 years of experience, and am wiser than l was and more determined, etc.

As for the using tech, that is not working, l can still think this is a remarkable piece of tech, (Laptop) while l see how aerodynamic it is! He, he!

As for everyone else, who wants wealth, and is depressed that the Tattslotto strategy isn't working out the way the advertisers say...

Are only depressed because they don' have the willpower to achieve success, or are too scared!

Nothing much you can do for people like that apart from buying a $1 scratchy! :rolleyes:

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HeySal

10 years ago

Shane - I'm thinking that all the discontent isn't always just about success. People are becoming so money oriented that they forget about stuff that is just completely awesome that has nothing to do with money. Money, money, money, melts into hurry, hurry, hurry, too.

I'm pretty non-materialistic. Give me a good dog and time to go out into the wilds and hunt rocks and I'm happy as hell - phone and computer are at home where they belong, and I'm disconnected from everything for awhile - enjoying the natural state of the planet. Sometimes my friends and/or niece are with me and we tell stories by the campfire and do one hell of a lot of laughing after a long day out - good food, good community, good nature immersion. It's impossible to think negative in those circumstances, even when back home finances may be a wreck or the roomie is a basketcase, or the boss is a dickhead.

When people get out of the money right now is everything mode, they are never as much of a mental train wreck as they are when they decide money is god - and that applies to the rich as well as the poor.

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tagiscom

10 years ago

Originally Posted by HeySal

Shane - I'm thinking that all the discontent isn't always just about success. People are becoming so money oriented that they forget about stuff that is just completely awesome that has nothing to do with money. Money, money, money, melts into hurry, hurry, hurry, too.

I'm pretty non-materialistic. Give me a good dog and time to go out into the wilds and hunt rocks and I'm happy as hell - phone and computer are at home where they belong, and I'm disconnected from everything for awhile - enjoying the natural state of the planet. Sometimes my friends and/or niece are with me and we tell stories by the campfire and do one hell of a lot of laughing after a long day out - good food, good community, good nature immersion. It's impossible to think negative in those circumstances, even when back home finances may be a wreck or the roomie is a basketcase, or the boss is a dickhead.

When people get out of the money right now is everything mode, they are never as much of a mental train wreck as they are when they decide money is god - and that applies to the rich as well as the poor.

Yep, l hear you, smell the roses while living in a cave and making as much $$$ as possible!

But l still get away form it a few times a week, to keep my sanity! :rolleyes:

Well that and come here, and see what someone has done with Claude's thumbnail image he, he! :p

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Ricardo Furtado

10 years ago

How is everything amazing? Have you gone for a walk and seen the way the poor live?

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KingOfContentMarketing

10 years ago

The weird thing is probably the majority of the people reading this have reliable electricity and running water, putting them ahead of most of the people on Earth, yet we tend to focus on why we don't have as much as someone better off.

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10 years ago

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tagiscom

10 years ago

Originally Posted by KingOfContentMarketing

The weird thing is probably the majority of the people reading this have reliable electricity and running water, putting them ahead of most of the people on Earth, yet we tend to focus on why we don't have as much as someone better off.

Hmmmm, that all boils down to the socialpaths and the one hundred trillion in oil reserves in the ground!

We could revolutionise the planet starting tomorrow, without this profit crap! But there is always some ways to skin a socialpath, (hypothetically speaking).

Just need money and time, (and a secret lab). He, he!

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

Larry David (Seinfeld co-creator) once said, in an interview, that he used to worry about money all the time. He said that the only thing he thought about was not having any money.

Then he got rich. Richer than rich. Making more money than he could ever hope to spend. And he said that he was still worried, just about other things. And that he realized that he was just a guy that worried.

Yeah, I hear myself swearing when an e-mail takes longer than 5 seconds to arrive across the country. For free.....across the country.

I actually grumble when a customer comes in my store and forces me to get off my ass, give them something...and take their money...which I get to keep (most of it anyway). What a funny species we are.

500 years ago, I'd be trying to find roots in the snow to eat to survive.

I wonder if there were Vegetarians 500 years ago? I wonder how many complained about Seasonal Affective Disorder?

I wonder how many were chronically depressed because Justin Bieber lost his virginity? (I'm still not entirely sure who that is)

I think that it is his pet monkey?

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