I hang with an older than me crowd quite a bit.
Something that kind of bugs me about the non-gun side of that hanging is the practical advice.
"Why don't you just do [something no longer legal] to..."
"You should have [something impossible today] to..."
The past is another country. The nation where they started a business from nothing or worked their way through college is gone.
I can start to see why the occupy people are bitter. The only way to get past a certain line in the income class structure is to assume massive debts, which just create an illusion you've crossed that line.
The people just ten years older than me grew up where that wasn't true and most of them are debt free except for a small credit card balance.
Rather than demand the oldsters be punished, I'd prefer some sound fiscal policy and maybe some damn deflation for a change.
Of course the start of that will be making borrowing expensive again and letting the lenders only loan to people who can pay them back.
Something that kind of bugs me about the non-gun side of that hanging is the practical advice.
"Why don't you just do [something no longer legal] to..."
"You should have [something impossible today] to..."
The past is another country. The nation where they started a business from nothing or worked their way through college is gone.
I can start to see why the occupy people are bitter. The only way to get past a certain line in the income class structure is to assume massive debts, which just create an illusion you've crossed that line.
The people just ten years older than me grew up where that wasn't true and most of them are debt free except for a small credit card balance.
Rather than demand the oldsters be punished, I'd prefer some sound fiscal policy and maybe some damn deflation for a change.
Of course the start of that will be making borrowing expensive again and letting the lenders only loan to people who can pay them back.