We lack the homogeneity and when they grow older and informed and pay bills they’ll become pubs. Rinse repeat.The Scandinavian countries are universally considered the happiest and best places to live. With our younger generation seemingly having similar values, could we get there in 25 years? More? Less?
Americans are never satisfied with where we are. We buy a BMW and are happy until our neighbor buys a Ferrari. Our 75 inch TV is great, until we have a friend with a 100 inch. We really require an overhaul.The Scandinavian countries are universally considered the happiest and best places to live. With our younger generation seemingly having similar values, could we get there in 25 years? More? Less?
Americans are never satisfied with where we are. We buy a BMW and are happy until our neighbor buys a Ferrari. Our 75 inch TV is great, until we have a friend with a 100 inch. We really require an overhaul.
I had a buddy wonder why people get so angry when they find out a coworker makes more. He suggested if we were happy with our pay before finding out someone makes more, why should that make us suddenly unhappy with our pay. Our pay hasn't changed. He suggested we should be happy for the other person.
We need to learn to be happier with where we are. I've listened to some conversations about the younger generation. One was by a Libertarian about how the job market is changing, many youth work for 6-8 months in a gig economy, then quit for a month or two and travel the world and then get another gig job. That may well be a more mentally healthy way of doing it as I'm not sure the rat race really works for our mental health.
I think the homogeneity plays a role. They're not nearly as divided as we are. We're not so much a melting pot anymore. but rather an increasingly balkanized society.We lack the homogeneity and when they grow older and informed and pay bills they’ll become pubs. Rinse repeat.
We should probably quit keeping score in sports too, huh?😉Americans are never satisfied with where we are. We buy a BMW and are happy until our neighbor buys a Ferrari. Our 75 inch TV is great, until we have a friend with a 100 inch. We really require an overhaul.
I had a buddy wonder why people get so angry when they find out a coworker makes more. He suggested if we were happy with our pay before finding out someone makes more, why should that make us suddenly unhappy with our pay. Our pay hasn't changed. He suggested we should be happy for the other person.
We need to learn to be happier with where we are. I've listened to some conversations about the younger generation. One was by a Libertarian about how the job market is changing, many youth work for 6-8 months in a gig economy, then quit for a month or two and travel the world and then get another gig job. That may well be a more mentally healthy way of doing it as I'm not sure the rat race really works for our mental health.
We should probably quit keeping score in sports too, huh?😉
it's the Amish problem isn't it? Finland doesn't have any Amish mafia presence.
definitely. i have a close buddy lives in sweden. played soccer in college then went to work for schering-plough in europeI think the homogeneity plays a role. They're not nearly as divided as we are. We're not so much a melting pot anymore. but rather an increasingly balkanized society.
A buddy married a Swede, and they moved back about 8-10 years ago. It's an entirely different ball game there, according to him.
What does it mean to be an American?We're not so much a melting pot anymore. but rather an increasingly balkanized society.
Personal freedom and individual responsibility are what I've considered the cornerstones of what it means to be an American, but they're long gone in large swaths of the population.What does it mean to be an American?
We lost that somewhere. I used to know, now i don't. Our homegeniety should be based on common ideals about freedom, liberty, and being able to work your way up the socio-economic ladder. A lot of people have helped to kill this:
-Corportations by moving jobs
-SJWs by driving division
-Nativists by responding to the SJWs and creating slogans like America First (but really just the white ones)
- and on and on
I'd throw community in there. Which requires assimilation. Which seems to be taboo these days. Sigh.Personal freedom and individual responsibility are what I've considered the cornerstones of what it means to be an American, but they're long gone in large swaths of the population.
agreedI'd throw community in there. Which requires assimilation. Which seems to be taboo these days. Sigh.
Birds of a feather ......, nature will have her way.I think the homogeneity plays a role. They're not nearly as divided as we are. We're not so much a melting pot anymore. but rather an increasingly balkanized society.
A buddy married a Swede, and they moved back about 8-10 years ago. It's an entirely different ball game there, according to him.
Good list. Add these:What does it mean to be an American?
We lost that somewhere. I used to know, now i don't. Our homegeniety should be based on common ideals about freedom, liberty, and being able to work your way up the socio-economic ladder. A lot of people have helped to kill this:
-Corportations by moving jobs
-SJWs by driving division
-Nativists by responding to the SJWs and creating slogans like America First (but really just the white ones)
- and on and on
Personal freedom and individual responsibility are what I've considered the cornerstones of what it means to be an American, but they're long gone in large swaths of the population.