Greetings good citizen, it is common for kids to grow up resenting their parents for not being rich, especially when they are little and don't understand why they aren't going to Disney over school break [either of them...this kid has never been and I don't regret it...nor do I, 'resent' my parents for not providing me with 'the life of privilege' I felt I deserved.
Somewhat ironic to read that certain wealthy kid's parents would make it a point to deny their progeny their 'hearts desire' as a form of 'tough love', in hopes of preparing them for the frustration of not getting what you want , when you want it...even if you regret it the second it is yours...
This seldom worked but the 'strategy' is sound. Makes sense although little else does in this life we SHARE.
Back to kids hating their parents for being 'poor'...
Around the time we start earning our own way [something millennials are still trying to achieve] we begin to realize that life ISN'T 'Fair' despite what we were taught as we grew older.
With this realization comes the notion that hey, our parents did the best they could for us playing the hand fate had dealt them.
Boy, by the time this realization set in we were already sick & tired of hearing about not complaining about the hands life dealt us, it was what it was.
But is it?
While the wealthy 'sequester' themselves from having to 'mingle' with us commoners, we still 'share' this existence. Kids whose parents can afford to send them to private schools may have different childhood resentments to nurture, like not being born to parents that have a private ski chalet in St. Moritz or the ability to spend school vacations with them while they grew up.
Here is neither the time nor the place to go into how some of the wealthy 'warehouse' their kids, shipping them off to boarding school as soon as they are old enough to be on their own and only 'visiting' them on holidays and special occasions.
Which is to point out that some of those lording over the rest of us have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in 'common' with the rest of us, nothing in the slightest. [This isn't their fault but this is the likeliest explanation for why scientists are striving to create AI controlled robots during a planetary wide population crisis.
THis can only serve one purpose and it isn't the 'salvation of mankind'...
That purpose is the 'extermination order' being fulfilled.
[Few would contest that we are an extraordinarily 'self-destructive' species...something you find nowhere else in 'nature' (which is to opine we aren't exactly 'natural' either.)]
That said I am inclined to 'back away' from this argument that we are 'genetically predisposed' to behave irrationally, that our consistent, reckless disregard for our collective 'best interests' [leave our individual interests aside, they don't even enter the picture most of the time.] because this leads us to blame 'everything' on our 'programming'. [We can't help it, its how we were built/engineered!]
While there is proof 'racial memory' exists (and lends a certain credence to the theory that this is a 'prison planet', which is to state that the 'rainbow' we see here ISN'T 'naturally occurring', neither are the tensions we nurture over the 'perceived differences' between us.) Um, the 'opinion makers' among us tend to take the 'easy out' whenever it is presented.
Remember, it wasn't too terribly long ago that 'science' taught the world was 'flat'. [Not ALL science is concrete 'fact'! Much of it is 'speculation and 'best guesses'.]
But we've already determined that 'smart' is a 'rare commodity'.
Worse is how 'smart' is difficult to 'quantify'. There is more to life/understanding than mathematics...in fact much of what ails our species is directly traceable to the embracing of a 'everything is mathematical' mindset. [If the 'math' is sound, so is the logic!]
Life 'by the numbers' are driving us off a cliff and nobody knows how to turn the beast aside!
I just glanced at the title of today's piece and note that I am wildly 'off topic' [but what else is 'new'?]
I started this post with the notion that, given our 'common existence', the outcomes experienced by the majority need to be more, er, 'uniform'.
Some would opine they already are, MOST of us live lives of misery, struggling all their lives with debt that continues to grow with age while the few live lives of worry...worry that they will be found out and executed for their predation.
THis is the importance of knowing all money is funny and that money exists so YOU can 'specialized', thereby bringing 'a better life' to us ALL.
But no, this isn't the case. This is NOT what the majority experiences. You get paid barely enough to live on (if you can find work at all!) and your debts keep multiplying because life is filled with 'incidentals' that YOU must pay for out of your meager food budget! [it's the ONLY place you can cut.]
THIS ISN'T AN ACCIDENT!
90% of the working population lives 'HAND TO MOUTH' not because it is 'necessary' but to keep YOU 'hungry and humble'.
It is 'believed' by those who have nothing in common with you that you would be 'spoiled' by a life that offers you even a taste of what they have.
Wouldn't you LIKE to go on vacation, someplace warm when it's cold and someplace fun when it's not?
But NO...your 'reality' is you vacation time is used to 'save money'. Instead of taking time off to enjoy yourself, your vacation is spent doing 'home improvement' in a futile attempt to stem the endless flow of funds dedicated to keeping a roof over your heads and the furnace running during the cold weather...where SOME of you have to choose between heating and eating.
You regularly 'sacrifice' [life's tiny luxuries] so your kids [who resent you for being 'poor'] don't go without.
Why won't you FIGHT to level a decidedly tilted playing field?
And by 'fight' I mean sit down and do NOTHING!
It is because you 'fear' what might happen.
And you are correct to fear it! They have money to price you clean out of the market...but YOU have numbers on your side...and there is strength in numbers. if they can buy it YOU can TAKE IT. [Chances are you MADE it in the first place...and money only exist to make it possible for you to make what you couldn't waste the time on if you had to do EVERYTHING YOURSELF!
Which is to opine that YOUR PAYCHECK SHOULD PROVIDE YOU WITH A [not necessarily THE] Good Life!
A darn good life but NO...those you work for don't want YOU getting spoiled! They fear if you had it 'good' that you wouldn't jump at the opportunity to work overtime on the holidays...not that there will be may of those left at the rate they are cutting back!
We have already been reduced to a 'gig' economy where some of the feckless rent out rooms in their home for the extra income it provides!
Where will it end?
With you in your grave if you don't stand up to them now!
Ironically, few of any life experience fear dying...but we ALL love a good time, spent with good friends...why do we let our friends suffer?
It really is UP TO YOU!
Again, not what to think but something to think about!
Goodbye head, see you tomorrow!
Gegner
Somewhat ironic to read that certain wealthy kid's parents would make it a point to deny their progeny their 'hearts desire' as a form of 'tough love', in hopes of preparing them for the frustration of not getting what you want , when you want it...even if you regret it the second it is yours...
This seldom worked but the 'strategy' is sound. Makes sense although little else does in this life we SHARE.
Back to kids hating their parents for being 'poor'...
Around the time we start earning our own way [something millennials are still trying to achieve] we begin to realize that life ISN'T 'Fair' despite what we were taught as we grew older.
With this realization comes the notion that hey, our parents did the best they could for us playing the hand fate had dealt them.
Boy, by the time this realization set in we were already sick & tired of hearing about not complaining about the hands life dealt us, it was what it was.
But is it?
While the wealthy 'sequester' themselves from having to 'mingle' with us commoners, we still 'share' this existence. Kids whose parents can afford to send them to private schools may have different childhood resentments to nurture, like not being born to parents that have a private ski chalet in St. Moritz or the ability to spend school vacations with them while they grew up.
Here is neither the time nor the place to go into how some of the wealthy 'warehouse' their kids, shipping them off to boarding school as soon as they are old enough to be on their own and only 'visiting' them on holidays and special occasions.
Which is to point out that some of those lording over the rest of us have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in 'common' with the rest of us, nothing in the slightest. [This isn't their fault but this is the likeliest explanation for why scientists are striving to create AI controlled robots during a planetary wide population crisis.
THis can only serve one purpose and it isn't the 'salvation of mankind'...
That purpose is the 'extermination order' being fulfilled.
[Few would contest that we are an extraordinarily 'self-destructive' species...something you find nowhere else in 'nature' (which is to opine we aren't exactly 'natural' either.)]
That said I am inclined to 'back away' from this argument that we are 'genetically predisposed' to behave irrationally, that our consistent, reckless disregard for our collective 'best interests' [leave our individual interests aside, they don't even enter the picture most of the time.] because this leads us to blame 'everything' on our 'programming'. [We can't help it, its how we were built/engineered!]
While there is proof 'racial memory' exists (and lends a certain credence to the theory that this is a 'prison planet', which is to state that the 'rainbow' we see here ISN'T 'naturally occurring', neither are the tensions we nurture over the 'perceived differences' between us.) Um, the 'opinion makers' among us tend to take the 'easy out' whenever it is presented.
Remember, it wasn't too terribly long ago that 'science' taught the world was 'flat'. [Not ALL science is concrete 'fact'! Much of it is 'speculation and 'best guesses'.]
But we've already determined that 'smart' is a 'rare commodity'.
Worse is how 'smart' is difficult to 'quantify'. There is more to life/understanding than mathematics...in fact much of what ails our species is directly traceable to the embracing of a 'everything is mathematical' mindset. [If the 'math' is sound, so is the logic!]
Life 'by the numbers' are driving us off a cliff and nobody knows how to turn the beast aside!
I just glanced at the title of today's piece and note that I am wildly 'off topic' [but what else is 'new'?]
I started this post with the notion that, given our 'common existence', the outcomes experienced by the majority need to be more, er, 'uniform'.
Some would opine they already are, MOST of us live lives of misery, struggling all their lives with debt that continues to grow with age while the few live lives of worry...worry that they will be found out and executed for their predation.
THis is the importance of knowing all money is funny and that money exists so YOU can 'specialized', thereby bringing 'a better life' to us ALL.
But no, this isn't the case. This is NOT what the majority experiences. You get paid barely enough to live on (if you can find work at all!) and your debts keep multiplying because life is filled with 'incidentals' that YOU must pay for out of your meager food budget! [it's the ONLY place you can cut.]
THIS ISN'T AN ACCIDENT!
90% of the working population lives 'HAND TO MOUTH' not because it is 'necessary' but to keep YOU 'hungry and humble'.
It is 'believed' by those who have nothing in common with you that you would be 'spoiled' by a life that offers you even a taste of what they have.
Wouldn't you LIKE to go on vacation, someplace warm when it's cold and someplace fun when it's not?
But NO...your 'reality' is you vacation time is used to 'save money'. Instead of taking time off to enjoy yourself, your vacation is spent doing 'home improvement' in a futile attempt to stem the endless flow of funds dedicated to keeping a roof over your heads and the furnace running during the cold weather...where SOME of you have to choose between heating and eating.
You regularly 'sacrifice' [life's tiny luxuries] so your kids [who resent you for being 'poor'] don't go without.
Why won't you FIGHT to level a decidedly tilted playing field?
And by 'fight' I mean sit down and do NOTHING!
It is because you 'fear' what might happen.
And you are correct to fear it! They have money to price you clean out of the market...but YOU have numbers on your side...and there is strength in numbers. if they can buy it YOU can TAKE IT. [Chances are you MADE it in the first place...and money only exist to make it possible for you to make what you couldn't waste the time on if you had to do EVERYTHING YOURSELF!
Which is to opine that YOUR PAYCHECK SHOULD PROVIDE YOU WITH A [not necessarily THE] Good Life!
A darn good life but NO...those you work for don't want YOU getting spoiled! They fear if you had it 'good' that you wouldn't jump at the opportunity to work overtime on the holidays...not that there will be may of those left at the rate they are cutting back!
We have already been reduced to a 'gig' economy where some of the feckless rent out rooms in their home for the extra income it provides!
Where will it end?
With you in your grave if you don't stand up to them now!
Ironically, few of any life experience fear dying...but we ALL love a good time, spent with good friends...why do we let our friends suffer?
It really is UP TO YOU!
Again, not what to think but something to think about!
Goodbye head, see you tomorrow!
Gegner
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