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Depends how you define "a life" though, doesn't it? If "having a life" means "owning lotsa stuff" then not much, I guess.

Except that that's the kind of "money is everything/I got mine, Jack!" thinking that lead to the housing crisis and tangentally to the economic collapse. If you ask me that gold star has some tarnish on it. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against making money... unless of course your sole application of that money is to make more money. At that point you've lost the plot, IMHO.

You understand we need them to stay down right, to stay impoversihed so we in the west aren't? Economics is like an elevator: in order for someone to go up, someone else has to go down. It most certainly is not some vast ocean where a "rising tide lifts all boats", despite republican claims to the contrary. And even if it were, the rising tide would be less than helpful to those boats that are anchored...

<blockquote data-quote="CapnG" data-source="post: 69312" data-attributes="member: 175">Depends how you define &quot;a life&quot; though, doesn&#039;t it? If &quot;having a life&quot; means &quot;owning lotsa stuff&quot; then not much, I guess. Except that that&#039;s the kind of &quot;money is everything/I got mine, Jack!&quot; thinking that lead to the housing crisis and tangentally to the economic collapse. If you ask me that gold star has some tarnish on it. Don&#039;t get me wrong, I have nothing against making money... unless of course your sole application of that money is to make more money. At that point you&#039;ve lost the plot, IMHO.You understand we need them to stay down right, to stay impoversihed so we in the west aren&#039;t? Economics is like an elevator: in order for someone to go up, someone else has to go down. It most certainly is not some vast ocean where a &quot;rising tide lifts all boats&quot;, despite republican claims to the contrary. And even if it were, the rising tide would be less than helpful to those boats that are anchored...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnG, post: 69312, member: 175"] Depends how you define "a life" though, doesn't it? If "having a life" means "owning lotsa stuff" then not much, I guess. Except that that's the kind of "money is everything/I got mine, Jack!" thinking that lead to the housing crisis and tangentally to the economic collapse. If you ask me that gold star has some tarnish on it. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against making money... unless of course your sole application of that money is to make more money. At that point you've lost the plot, IMHO. You understand we need them to stay down right, to stay impoversihed so we in the west [I]aren't?[/I] Economics is like an elevator: in order for someone to go up, someone else has to go down. It most certainly is not some vast ocean where a "rising tide lifts all boats", despite republican claims to the contrary. And even if it were, the rising tide would be less than helpful to those boats that are anchored... [/QUOTE]

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