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Post by TheHmmmm on Apr 3, 2012 19:40:42 GMT -5
That's my ultimate goal in life: retirement. I've given up on the social revolution that would balance the scales. My goal now is to just buy my way out of the game. That's the saddest thing I've read or heard in a few months. And I don't mean sad in the same way as being an involuntary virgin at age 40. I mean, puppy with 3 injured legs trying to walk, and then breaking his 4th, sad. Hey man, how's a puppy gonna make a living? That's what I fuckin' thought. No seriously though. Why wait for things to change? Why not game the system now and try to win. I'm not saying I won't have enjoyable times, I'm just saying my economic goal is to retire. I'm still finding plenty of things to enjoy in life, I just don't want to work to fix this shit. Especially since there's an entire party of people who have been convinced to vote AGAINST their own self-interest.
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Post by TheHmmmm on Mar 31, 2012 21:39:41 GMT -5
Yes, ignorance is another problem. So many Americans want things changed, yet they don't know what to change because they have no idea how an economy (or our government, for that matter) works. The real question is how do we fix this? Economics classes are taught in most high schools, but so few students care. They'd rather complain about our problems rather than learn to solve them. You can make someone sit in a desk and listen until they turn 18, but unless they really care, they aren't going to learn anything. The end result is a population that believes that high government spending and low taxes are sustainable. It's fantasy that needs to be corrected, otherwise nothing will ever be fixed. As someone who has been and will be taking economics classes for a while in college, I'm going to say that my academic education about economics, particularly macroeconomics, seems pretty suspicious. I'm taught all of these things about fractional reserve banking, keynesian multipliers, money supply/creation, monetarism etc. and I am told that they all relate to one another in a neat order. I get the feeling that leaving college (even though I have no intention to use this economic knowledge) I would find my knowledge to be very useless and that the economy is far less organized and tidy than my classes theorize. Just look at the division on theory. We have the Keynesians, the Neo-keynesians, the classical liberals of Hayek, the Marxists, etc. all claiming to know the path to prosperity. I've come to respect engineers. At least they can all agree how to generally build a sturdy fucking bridge. Economists can't even agree as to whether government spending aids the economy. As far as the middle class struggle is concerned, it's always been a problem that's magnified when economies plummet. Fact: the middle class is hurt far more when we hit the "bust" than the wealthy. Everyone is sedate and content with their smaller portions when the economy is placated, but destabilize everything and suddenly the "99%" realize that there's a group in a nice bubble of privilege completely unaffected by their problems. What Auburn is describing is the concept of wage slavery. It's the idea that we are forced to work in order to survive, no different than any slave would be. I'm selling myself into a (hopefully) well-paying career so that I can live below my means and retire. That's my ultimate goal in life: retirement. I've given up on the social revolution that would balance the scales. My goal now is to just buy my way out of the game. I, nor do I believe anyone else, can't tell you how to balance the economy fairly. We could raise the abysmal capital gains tax, regulate unstable industries, tax the hell out of inheritances etc. but I don't know if that would really fix it all. You'd think we'd have learned from the industrial revolution not to marginalize the quality of life of the majority, but clearly we haven't. I'm throwing in the towel.
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Post by TheHmmmm on Apr 11, 2011 23:07:31 GMT -5
You and your goddang dog auburn...
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Post by TheHmmmm on Mar 24, 2011 4:22:44 GMT -5
Pfft, unless you Gutmann'ed it then through it in a blender, you did not wipe your hard drive.
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Post by TheHmmmm on Dec 7, 2010 1:44:19 GMT -5
Where the fuck do you find this shit?
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Post by TheHmmmm on Sept 25, 2010 2:16:06 GMT -5
Quotes from Zim: Alright, alright. Before some smartass points out the contradiction in the statement above and this PM Zim sent Auburn, which I absolutely hate reposting btw, where he says that he HAS backed up all the important topics... i52.tinypic.com/o5xcuc.png...I just want to say Zim is just human and humans tend to forget things or make honest mistakes. Maybe he had a dream in which he backed up all the important threads and though it was real. Maybe the PM was sent by a Zim in an alternate universe who did successfully back up the threads. We have to take these things into consideration guys. And the idea that Zim made all of that stuff up in the PM to persuade Auburn to delete the forum is as evil as socialism. Zim himself has said that he was not trying to tear down the site. As he stated earlier, the whole favicon incident was just him trying to see how I would respond to it, which makes perfect sense. And that whole banner on his site saying that this forum would go down shortly was surely just one big massive typo. No one must doubt the good intentions of Zim. He says he had adrenaline-filled rage at the sight of PB HoO going down and I believe him. That settles it. I totally get his logic. His hacking abilities shows that he had the means to carry out a hack while the ability to bake cookies does not show that he had the means to carry out a hack, therefore, they are equally irrelvent to this subject. And he's right, it's definitely not proof. In fact, it's not even considerable support to the idea that he was the hacker. Seriously, who brought up this invalid, moot point? They just got schooled in logic. I believe him here. Afterall, there WERE a hundred active users and a hacker always has time to ban every single person he didn't like. Banning just the people who pisses one off the most just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. You got to go all the way, right? It's all 100 or nothing. You've persuaded me to your side Zim, I got your back. Word. I got banned too, but it's understandable with all of my negative activity over there... I don't see how since you are just directed to the ban screen. Granted, it's not an IP ban, so I think you could just make another account, but then it wouldn't be commandolam who sent it.
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