Sounds a little like Rush here (@BradStevens will immediately think it is crap):As an aside, I bought this record album back in high school, based completely on the cover art being pretty badass:
Trillion was a 70's Chicago area prog rock band, and this album wasn't too bad.
Jim was ready to flip the switch for a sbx gift card. The new owner already exposed himself with his grade school comment. The dream team spends more on Joe’s tab at the annual than it would cost to run a coup
mcm666 had an equally protracted and insane email exchange with Jim Coyle, screaming for Uncle's ouster as a mod.
I think he was pointing out the negative tradeoffs to the system we have. Two quick examples. One of them is a concentration of wealth for those who own the assets at the detriment of those who don't own them. Another is that houses, education, healthcare, and stocks are more expensive today when compared to the average wage as a percentage of GDP. Those are both a reality for a majority of the population. His overall point I took away is it's bad and not sustainable long term, which I agree with.
The Bible is not a made up collection of stories. It is one story spanning 1600 yrs of writing. The Apostle Peter explains how Scriptures came to be in 2 Peter 1 :
Mark here is the thing. I remember years ago when I was talking about the deficit and leftists on here were saying it is not that big of a deal. Today, we have interest on the debt which matches up with our spending on our military. And we spend a lot on the military. Common sense tells us that you can't keep losing money like that every year and it not come to bite us.
You are confusing different concepts here. The trade deficit is not the budget deficit.
You buy food at the grocery store. The grocery store doesn’t buy food from you. What’s up with that trade deficit?
Not just that. Also drugs, medicinal and recreational.
Why would you say "leftists" as if it is some boogeyman? Does not Galatians 3:28 say something along the lines of "There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor free; nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Jesus."
Getting to any summit can be an individual’s Everest. The starting point won’t matter.
Sure it does. If one guy starts from halfway up the mountain and the other guy starts at the village of hommlet 10 miles away, that's a pretty big deal
Don’t agree. You are judging the village guy by looking at the halfway up the mountain guy. The village guy could end up on a different (lower) summit but be more content with his accomplishments.
You've shifted focus in your discussion to individual, subjective contentment.
We have to individualize the notion of a successful life , don’t we?. I used individual contentment as a measure but there are others. The measure of success of one raised in rural Nebraska and goes to trade school is not relevant to the measure of one raised in an upper east side apartment and goes to the Ivy League. This is why I don’t see the importance of the starting point.
We are talking about material outcomes, CoH. You're essentially arguing those don't matter as much as psychological happiness and contentment. I agree with you, to an extent. But I also think the material stuff very much matters and that people are still at a disadvantage even on your happiness and contentment vectors depending on their upbringing, genetics, experience, etc.
He who has the most toys wins?
Yes. That's what precipitated the permaban.
Some downsides to trade deficits is you end up hollowing out your manufacturing and the middle class somewhat. If we didn't have a magic money printer the deficits would correct themselves at some point (quicker in my opinion) because country A (surplus nation) would eventually end up owning all/most of country B (deficit nation) stuff. Taking it to the extreme once they owned all of country B's land, assets, and equities, they'd stop sending them their goods for their magic paper.
Taking ownership of your mistake is step 1 in forgiveness. I commend you on your bold step forward.
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This discussion started regarding poverty, so no, it's not who has the most toys wins.
