$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('medicvet', '
')I think that those who grew up poor might be more adaptable, even if they are no longer poor..simply because of more experience doing without.
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Blind Sense of Entitlement
Re: Blind Sense of Entitlement
by Doly » Fri 30 Sep 2005, 11:29:41
I think it isn't just experience, it's also that your expectations are set from an early age quite low. You don't go around expecting much. That's the opposite of a sense of entitlement, that develops when you get tons of stuff as a child.
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Re: Blind Sense of Entitlement
by TT » Fri 30 Sep 2005, 12:44:13
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'I') dunno, I grew up in the 1970s, not the Great Depression but pretty godamned close.
NO, No, no. Nowhere near close.
I raised 2 children in the 70's and although money was tight, there was still some work around. We managed OK. Times were pretty good.
Although I was not around in the Great Depression, I can recall the post war years in Europe and we were hungry. In Aussie the "slump" of the early 60's again sent men humpin' the bluey for work. It was a time of no shoes and bread and dripping for supper.
The old timers tell me that the 60's were a cake walk compared to the Great Depression. People thrown out of their homes, unable to afford basic food, soup kitchens, desperate searches for a days work, desperate hunger and all pervading poverty.
From my perspective if what we are about to experience is only a repeat of the 70's, then we have no worries. Unfortunately, I believe that post oil will most likely make even the Great Depression seem like a cake walk.
http://www.gusmorino.com/pag3/greatdepression/
Some photos http://history1900s.about.com/library/p ... ession.htm
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-16 ... --,00.html
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