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  • in reply to: Revisiting the Financial Fingerprint of Instability #1482
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    Good piece. Thanks.

    in reply to: The Original Street Artist #1272
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    Sorry. operator error. Hit submit with out getting to the point.

    I see their difficulties and I wonder how this generation is going to build lives for themselves. At least our kids have our emotional and financial support but still have great difficulty “getting ahead” or for that matter “breaking even.” I worry about the millions of young people who don’t even have that support from family and friends.

    in reply to: The Original Street Artist #1271
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    I watch my five young adult children struggling to build their lives and I fear the future. The oldest a professional, married to a professional spend their entire generous saleries for a mortgage on an upside down property and for student loans. My second daughter works to finish a degree to get her teaching certificate to support to children whose father has been only able to find part time construction work for the past four years. My oldest son is in the military and barely makes enough for he and his wife to pay for a car and rent. My next to youngest refuses to run up student loan debts. He works full time, actually more than full time, and has miserable health coverage and does not earn enough to rent even a studio flat in our overpriced city. My youngest, who had sigificant learning disabilities is two years out of high school, works, attends junior college and lives with us saving his money. There are no “plans, no attainable goals that he can see on the horizon.

    in reply to: Modern Myths that Destroy Humanity #1209
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    These discussions usually leave me sitting in the uncomfortable middle, not being able to agree with either side. On one side Sacks and followers are looking at poverty as if it is a disease. So long as we find the right vacine and the correct clinical proceedures we can make it diappear like smallpox or leprosy have disappeared. The causes of poverty are too complex, too overlayered in history, culture, oppression and personal reations to ever be solved by a “process or proceedure.” On the other hand I am uncomfortable with the idea of the “noble poor” and viewing poverty as sort of an alternative life style to be cherished and left to itself. The reality of the last two hundred years is that there has been progress and much of that has come through growth. Infant mortality, death in childbirth, malnutrition, lack of education, clothing, housing have been dramatically reduced in many parts of the world. Few of us would voluntarily return to the former realities. I can not help but believe that the truly poor of Africa, South American and Asia do not want to be freed of these affilctions or that they would object to sharing the “progress” and growth that we take for granted. The key is to find a way to promote progress and to promote a sustainable growth without colonialism and oppression as its moving force. How we do this; I don’t know. Hopefully many of you are more intelligent and insightful than I am about how to get there.

    in reply to: Peak Energy Animinated – "There's No Tomorrow" #945
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    I have been reading automatice earth for several years. Almost since its beginning. In response to Ian, I think you are being a little to hard on the hosts. Ashvin has added a great deal to the insights of Illargi and Stoneleigh. The new format will hopefully allow other, new voices, to add their work on these important issues.

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