$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'f')wiw, my scorn is almost solely aimed at MBA toters thinking they have an anointed right to a good job.
Of all educated members of society, presuming they were actually taught and mastered business management, accounting, and economics material, a toter of an MBA should have no trouble understanding what is going on, and how to make a decent living (if not opulent) during this period. I have plenty of sympathy for the high school grad, or holder of soft/art degree who is overwhelmed and confused by the unimaginably huge, systemic reset that is underway right now. I can't do much to help them, and only have the weakest of advice to offer in that they should find a way to live small and seek contentedness outside of financial reward.
But an MBA ????
H*** no. Sink or Soar.
Wheat from the chaff my good man.
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Census Bureau "startled" by America's 100 million poor
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Re: Census Bureau "startled" by America's 100 million poor
by The Practician » Sun 20 Nov 2011, 19:09:00
Reasonable enough, but at some point you have to forgive people for believing the crap about eternal growth and endless prosperity they've been spoon fed their entire lives. Truth be told, I am probably better at the whole forgiveness and understanding on the internet, with ample time to read something, process it's responses, and forumulate my own, than I am In real "realtime", where I scorn my own mother for buying at the height of a housing bubble(Victoria, B.C is "different" apparently), and engage in faux-righteous tirades against the "poor people" outside my apartment window for making a racket over whose crackpipe is whose or whatever while I'm trying to sleep.
One of things I like about "peak oil" ,is that if you are willing, it can lead you to thinking about politics and economics is ways that defy traditional understandings of "left" vs "right". I come from the left, but the facts of resource depletion combined with the abject lack of resilience in the growth paradigm have led me to views that you could describe not as right, left, or center based on t the traditional ideology "line". Instead, you could look at them as being on the other side of a circle, so to speak, from the current conception of what the center is, but even that is really a simplification.
If there is one thing that the content of this forum has convinced me of, it of the uselessness of conventional ideological viewpoints, be they extreme or moderate in their nature, in confronting peak oil and resource depletion in a humane, rational, and agreeable manner.
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Re: Census Bureau "startled" by America's 100 million poor
by gollum » Sun 20 Nov 2011, 20:05:45
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Practician', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'f')wiw, my scorn is almost solely aimed at MBA toters thinking they have an anointed right to a good job.
Of all educated members of society, presuming they were actually taught and mastered business management, accounting, and economics material, a toter of an MBA should have no trouble understanding what is going on, and how to make a decent living (if not opulent) during this period. I have plenty of sympathy for the high school grad, or holder of soft/art degree who is overwhelmed and confused by the unimaginably huge, systemic reset that is underway right now. I can't do much to help them, and only have the weakest of advice to offer in that they should find a way to live small and seek contentedness outside of financial reward.
But an MBA ????
H*** no. Sink or Soar.
Wheat from the chaff my good man.
Of all educated members of society, presuming they were actually taught and mastered business management, accounting, and economics material, a toter of an MBA should have no trouble understanding what is going on, and how to make a decent living (if not opulent) during this period. I have plenty of sympathy for the high school grad, or holder of soft/art degree who is overwhelmed and confused by the unimaginably huge, systemic reset that is underway right now. I can't do much to help them, and only have the weakest of advice to offer in that they should find a way to live small and seek contentedness outside of financial reward.
But an MBA ????
H*** no. Sink or Soar.
Wheat from the chaff my good man.
Reasonable enough, but at some point you have to forgive people for believing the crap about eternal growth and endless prosperity they've been spoon fed their entire lives. Truth be told, I am probably better at the whole forgiveness and understanding on the internet, with ample time to read something, process it's responses, and forumulate my own, than I am In real "realtime", where I scorn my own mother for buying at the height of a housing bubble(Victoria, B.C is "different" apparently), and engage in faux-righteous tirades against the "poor people" outside my apartment window for making a racket over whose crackpipe is whose or whatever while I'm trying to sleep.
One of things I like about "peak oil" ,is that if you are willing, it can lead you to thinking about politics and economics is ways that defy traditional understandings of "left" vs "right". I come from the left, but the facts of resource depletion combined with the abject lack of resilience in the growth paradigm have led me to views that you could describe not as right, left, or center based on t the traditional ideology "line". Instead, you could look at them as being on the other side of a circle, so to speak, from the current conception of what the center is, but even that is really a simplification.
If there is one thing that the content of this forum has convinced me of, it of the uselessness of conventional ideological viewpoints, be they extreme or moderate in their nature, in confronting peak oil and resource depletion in a humane, rational, and agreeable manner.
You're right, it amazes me how much baggage we carry in our world views even being a group of peak oil aware people.
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Re: Census Bureau "startled" by America's 100 million poor
by Keith_McClary » Sun 20 Nov 2011, 21:02:07
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'Y')ou can see the attitude right here on this 4um. Every man for himself.
We used to have folks who were into "building sustainable communities" etc.
Whatever became of them?
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, roads will still need paving, etc. However, in the future these services will be provided locally for much less money, and without all the bells and whistles.
Hey I resemble that remark!!!
