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Elder wealth: If you retire at 67 or so, your “wealth” needs to last until you die. You might need a nursing home or to hire people to help out. Not many people who live to be 90 or more have that much $ left. When they die it gets divided up among their children. I got something from my parents but not that much because they had spent it to cover their costs.
Indeed: All my life I have lived frugally so that I would have a secure retirement (and not be totally dependent on an increasingly dubious Social Security.) Professor Moyn wants to seize that “extra” wealth in the name of fairness. But he’s far from the only one: I have known many leftists who unashamedly told me that my savings should be “redistributed” in the name of “fairness” to people like them who were making no effort to save as I did.
Pranking: they risked their lives for those pranks. But hahahahhaha
The scientific revolution consisted of struggling to determine how things actually ARE as opposed to magic and wishes. It influenced belief in witchcraft and superstitions after awhile. We are now in a reversion to fantasy and feelings over rationalitiy. It is not a good turn. Our entire progress has been based on rationality. Irrationality kills and impoverishes.
On which, more tomorrow.
Now I’m curious!
So far it’s been a mixed bag for me – when I was a newly minted adult, fresh off the boat (grew up in the boonies without TV and hardly any pop culture), I thought Star Trek:TNG was amazing, and that American TV comedy with Urkel and that British comedy Absolutely Fabulous were hilarious.
Having recently stumbled across episodes of those shows during hotel stays, I found TNG to be preachy, and Urkel, the Ab Fab pair and that sourpuss daughter to be annoying as all heck.
But then another episode of TNG was pretty enjoyable, and some of the reason for my annoyance at the comedy shows was as a cynical older adult beaten down by life, the conflicts that arise when characters you like or want to like get involved in bad situations, often of their own making, just rings too close to home to be entertaining.
Would that they could mutually annihilate like the gingham dog and calico cat, while leaving the rest of humanity unscathed.
The Progressive solution it gets divided up among the “homeless”, addicts, welfare chavs…with the bulk diverted to government and NGO officials.
Usually disappointing. But occasionally enjoyable.
It’s well after midnight in London, and yet no Ephemera.
[ Directs Stern Gaze of Judgement and Reproach from across the Atlantic. ]
It’s well after midnight in London, and yet no Ephemera.
Have they had their Spring Forward yet?
I predict it’ll show up at 7 Central, since it is well past 6, and David did say he scheduled it.
Yes. And multiple websites said it was past midnight.
But why pass up an opportunity to tease David?
Perhaps David was wearing polyester.
Perhaps David was wearing polyester.
That’s gotta be it – the static charge build up was just too much for the server.
btw – love the bald eagle pic pst!
Yet other television shows hold up quite well in the main. Dated, but not so rooted in the then now as to be foreign.
I’d settle for a Kilkenny Cats outcome.
I can still watch the two Night Stalker movies and most of the episodes. The first couple seasons of Fringe were pretty good.
Is Muldoon visiting England perhaps?
For some reason, I pictured this.
Yet other television shows hold up quite well in the main.
Indeed. I have a particular fondness for old (60s/70s/80s) cop shows, detective shows, and the like, and aside from the ones or episodes where Modern crap was being preached, I still find them quite enjoyable.
Sit-coms though – I used to love a lot of the ones I would see in the 90s, but recently, revisiting old favorites hasn’t been as much fun, and I think it’s me that has changed. I love to laugh, and seek out humor, but find the old sit-coms not as much fun as they used to be. I can’t watch any new ones made for Modern Audiences though – ugh.
Much of which comes from newly minted “progressives” who were neglected whist Mommy and Daddy chased the big bucks. The children never learned where the money came from, it was just there. So they get back at Mommy and Daddy by taking it out on the system that made them rich in the first place.
It is a crime, a sin to leave large sums of money to anyone who doesn’t understand where the wealth came from and the responsibilities of maintaining it.
Cheers, mein host. Something for your trouble.
Bless you, sir. When making chili, may you never reach for the oregano but instead pick up parsley.
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