thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 29
th, 2024 at 11:35am:
Yadda wrote on Jan 29
th, 2024 at 7:05am:
Vociferous, anarchic street protests........
'a means to an end' [....the end of civil society]
Why? People forced to live in tents or sleep in shop door-fronts in the CBDs?
Soaring inequality
amid entrenched poverty: the 8 richest
individuals in the world have more wealth than the poorest 3.5 billion combined = you are insane.
Get back to us when you solve the homeless problem. Quote:
The Ant and The Grasshopper....
One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.
“What!” cried the Ants in surprise, “haven’t you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?”
“I didn’t have time to store up any food,” whined the Grasshopper; “I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone.”
The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.
“Making music, were you?” they cried. “
Very well; now dance!”
And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.
Moral
There’s a time for work and a time for play.
https://fablesofaesop.com/the-ant-and-the-grasshopper.html
If i want to buy anything, i never buy it on credit.
I will save the money that i need, to buy the thing i need/want for cash.
I'm not entitled, i wasn't born with an entitled spirit.
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HOW DID I GET MONEY, AND THE FEW POSSESSIONS I OWN ?
I left school at 16.
I had a job [pre-arranged] 2 weeks after i left school.
In that period [after gaining employment] i was a lodger, living with a family, paying to live with them.
lodger = = a person who pays rent to live in a property with the owner.I changed my lodgings about 4 times, in about four years.
After working at the same job for 4 1/2 years [and saving my wages], i quit my job.
After i quit my job, i got a passport, because i had decided to go traveling to Europe and to Israel.
It was a great experience !!! .....it was a fantastic life experience for a young,
naive, inexperienced, familiy-less, young man.
After 2 years away, and almost broke [cash wise], i returned to Australia.
After i returned, i got a job [and accommodation] on a gold mine, in the Northern Territory.
I saved my wages. ......and on, and on.
Then i made some more choices.
.....that was > 40 years ago.
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Nothing 'fell into my lap', in this life.
I had to be self reliant, and i had to work, AND LEARN TO LIVE FRUGALLY, until i had the means, to acquire the things i wanted/needed.
frugal = = sparing or economical as regards money or food.Today, my life is 'comfortable', but i'm not a wealthy person.