Actually, here, like there and elsewhere, there is much "Hoarding" of whatever passes for currency by an elite few. It's a dual problem. Our lifestyle is indeed wasteful, but on the other hand we are 'oorer' than we should be despite working hard enough we should prosper.

Ever see "Fight Club"? "We work jobs we hate to buy things we don't need". Except, one unfair rise in prices and stagnation of a raise at a time, the "Things we don't need" is being gradually replaced by increasingly expensive necessities.

True words, man, true words. My dad suffers from the disease of wanting to buy stuff everytime he has money... *sigh*

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I've suffered from that disease in the past as well.

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Yea, like the Buildaburgers and whoever else runs the Federal Reserve. I hate the Federal Reserve, they are responsible for a lot of the inflation and limited social mobility.

I have seen Fight Club. That was a fun movie and they did have some good points. I remember when I watched it with my best friend he started wondering for a bit if I wasn't just somethign inside of his head like that.

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it's called prodigality...... if people do save, life would be so beautiful.

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Fight Club is probably my favorite movie, just second to other unknown greats like "Light Years" and "Things to Come". It attacks modern society, and for the best reason. Not so much that "Modern western culture is eeeeeviilllllll" or anything, but rather that we've traded a purpose and place in life and society for a rather boring, pointless and meaningless life that only has the promise of luxury, and that promise being less and less meaningful as society cracks at the edges.

I don't know if you've seen 'em, but there are these "how - famous movie - should have ended". Funny to a point, and I've found fault with a few, but I could imagine one with "Fight Club"... (1)

His boss calls him to his office, but NOT to fire him. "Hokay, smarty pants, I've got a proposal that you either accept or polish your ample resume to get out soon... You had to prove you were a super engineer to get your job that any accountant can do, so it's clearly driving you crazy with boredom... So... here it is; You use your engineering skills to work out ways we can keep our lousy monster death traps from killing people and costing us money. Now, we can't afford extra $ for high tech parts, but I'm sure you can find ways to modify our existing manufacture process. If you do this, you not only keep your job, but I'll give you a bonus based on what you save us. If we project millions in losses which are averted, a bonus to you is very reasonable, and we could get some extra dollars from the FEDs and Consumer Reports good reviews. Long and short, you add "Efficiency/safety engineer to your Liability/Recall co-ordinator" job title. I know you can do it!"

And Tyler Durden would disappear in a puff of conceptual smoke...

(1) - The first one I saw was "how Star Wars should have ended." Pointed out the logical fallicy of the Falcon going straight to Yavin - 4 when since the empire didn't destroy it or weld it to the deck, they clearly put a tracking device in it. That was good.

-But, they had the empire win by blasting Yavin, then the Yavin - 4 moon. The Death star couldn't blow away planets like a six-shooter, it took 24 hours to charge. That's the sun's full yearly output, btw, to put out enough force to push apart an earth size planet.

However, shooting a Jupiter + size planet in the core would not be as easy. I wouldn't like to be in a "Bespin" cloud city thing when it was hit, but the liquid metallic hydrogen core would probably make the beam bounce into space and in any case it wouldn't do more than make it vibrate like a large ball of jello in zero gravity.

His name was Bob!

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Bob? Please elaborate?

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Yes I've always had my doubts about the utility and possibility of blowing up a whole planet. That's one of the reasons why I see Star Wars as being more fantasy than sci-fi. The Force being the main one.

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