“Adjusted for inflation” is a lie.
Think of it this way. $1 million in 1960 would buy you a couple of mansions, a fleet of nice cars, and you’d have enough left to put into investments that would give you income for life.
$11 million today won’t buy the nicest house on the block.
Also, the inflation for luxuries leaves regular inflation in the dust.
Back around 1960, $5,000.00 a year was a sold, middle class income. A Jaguar sportscar was about $6,000 and a Rolls was about $25,000.
Even if you spend the money to get a First Class airline ticket, you know that there are plenty of private planes out there.
Harlan Ellison wrote an essay about ‘fuck you money,’ the amount he needed to have in the bank so he could tell the studios to fuck off. Back in the day he could go six months on $1,000.
It’s obviously a basic human desire. Porn’s been around since the Stone Age. Might as well ask why do people like games.
His book “War And Anti-War” came out around 1996.
He predicted that the next American war would be against a non-state, maybe the cartels or a terrorist group.
Television was the revolution.
If people hadn’t seen MLK, the Freedom Riders, and other protesters being attacked, they would have been able to ignore it. It was when people saw the Vietnam War on the nightly news that they started reconsidering LBJ’s policies.
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Go the other way.
A hobby can only take you so far. I’d suggest you reassess your job/career.
In a good week you can spend ten or twenty hours on your hobby, whereas you’ll spend 40 hours working.
They probably have this book at your local library; you don’t need to buy it.
“Discover What You Are Best At” by Linda Gail.
Good luck
You can defrost quickly with the microwave.
I found this book when I was almost 30 and it changed my life.
“Discover What You Are Best At” by Linda Gail.
It’s a series of self tests you can complete in a few hours and a list of the jobs that use those skills.
If you have a job that you don’t hate, you’ve solved a lot of life’s problems.
Also, free range kids are likely to be reported by ‘concerned’ neighbors.
Pretty soon, ‘Stand By Me’ and ‘The Goonies’ are going to be classified as dangerous propaganda.
Battle of Little Big Horn was in June, 1876.
The first telephone call was made March 10, 1876.
Man Walked on the Moon in 1969. A few weeks after the Stonewall Riots.
Fanboy time.
Did the Black Panthers study at the temple of K’un L’un?
Rich parents can afford nannies who force the children to interact with them.
Poor parents use TVs and smart phones to amuse their kids.
I was reading about a team of bankruptcy lawyers. They were talking to a client’s wife about budgeting. They asked her what her minimum expenses for a month were. She said the absolute least she could survive on was $40,000 a month.
I have no idea what your condition is, but I’d bet everything that you aren’t asking for $40,000 a month.
The amazing thing to me is that Trump has been completely open about his predilections for decades.
He went on Howard Stern and boasted about barging into the dressing rooms at the Miss Teen USA Pageant.
I heard an interview where Ivanka talked about asking Daddy not to date girls younger than her.
He talked about sex yachts to the Boy Scouts.
Now they are noticing it?
Your wisdom is only overshadowed by your generosity.
Don’t get me started…
Too late…
‘The Harlem Shuffle’ by Colson Whitehead.
‘Red Harvest’ by Dashiell Hammett.
‘The Secret Place’ by Tana French…
Save yourself, it’s too late for me…
You talk about Epstein and only Epstein.
Right now the best thing to do is focus on the thing that his people will actually understand and get upset about.
They don’t care about climate, gulags, genocide, or destroying the functions of government.
They understand rich people getting away with shitty behavior.
Epstein. Keep repeating that.
https://www.newsweek.com/qatar-gift-trump-unsold-plane-2072564
It’s as if a fat guy who brought a bike for exercise and then threw it in the garage gave it to his pot dealer so the kid could deliver faster.
You’ve been watching too many movies.
The NFL reports came out right after the shooting.
He shot himself in the chest because he wanted his brain studied.
No way could anyone put together a conspiracy like this that quickly.
Moreover, being targeted by a conspiracy would be a Godsend for private military contractors. Trump and the GOP would fall all over themselves allowing them special rights and privileges, and they’d be investigating everyone who’d ever complained about income inequality