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Look at the enormous amount of money the internet porn business has made off of her...umm...efforts...
(Cute Fuzzy Bunny) said:Look at the enormous amount of money the internet porn business has made off of her...umm...efforts...
Geez, Dave, you're how old-- 34? Or at least presenting that age to the board?davew894 said:Taxes are at least part of the reason a lot of people FIRE.
A look at our retirement portfolio shows that we're economically persuading hundreds of worldwide companies to be more productive so that we'll buy their shares and so that they can pay us dividends/cap gains. Works for me.HaHa said:A look at an economics textbook will show you that if you aren't being economically productive you are being supported by someone one who is.
Considering their "contributions" to society, some people should be paid not to work. Paris would be a charter member of that group!Jay_Gatsby said:Hmmm...would Paris Hilton fall into the same category?
Are you saying that if you're an early retiree, that you're a parasite on society?
davew894 said:From the article... [The Baby Boomers] will remain cynical, self-absorbed and disaffected.
I have been bothered by the condition the boomers have left this country in for as long as I've known what a 'boomer' is. It's a part of the reason why I want to FIRE. I'm not paying for these people to continue to rape, loot and pillage everything they see... be it moral, ethical or financial.
I don't necessarily blame them. They lived in an unususal era... where the benefits of the industrial revolution, marked increases in productivity and the end of 'world wars' brought unprecedented wealth and unsustainable consumption. Never before has the world seen such 'progess' in regard to these matters... and the baby boomers not only drank from the sweet trough of industrial success, they picked it up and dumped it all over themselves.
I think history will explain the excessive consumption of the baby boomers as the time when no one realized or paid attention to the fact that the world is a place of constrained resources, that decisions impact the environment and that one-sided governmental policies can wreak havoc with our nation and nations around the globe. Consumption will need to revert back to the 'mean' in order to have a sustainable planet on which to live. Hopefully charitable activity and morals/ethics will revert back to the mean as well.
The next generations certainly have their work cut out for them.
Cut-Throat said:I nominate this as the most stupid post ever written on this forum!
Nords said:Considering their "contributions" to society, some people should be paid not to work. Paris would be a charter member of that group!
Cut-Throat said:I nominate this as the most stupid post ever written on this forum!
Nords said:Gee, I wonder what Ted's up to these days... Dory, has anyone checked his old IP address against our current user list?
Glad I hit a nerve!
In return, I get endless taxes (including SS tax, which is higher now than it has ever been), fewer holidays than any other industralized nation, longer hours than any other generation
Will things ever change? I hold hope but I have my doubts.
astromeria said:Dave, I was feeling annoyed with your politics and anti-boomer attitude--and was about to ask you which of the gay cowboys serves as your avatar--but then you quoted "Africa."
I luv ya, man
=astroboomer
davew894 said:To quote the Men at Work song 'Africa': "There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do."
davew894 said:Again, I take personal shots at me as a compliment, as I wouldn't want to argue the other side of some of my messages either.
davew894 said:Again, I take personal shots at me as a compliment, as I wouldn't want to argue the other side of some of my messages either. There seem to be an awful lot of 'retired early' 50+ old pharts (pardon the expression) around here, with some level of latent anger about having worked so long or some other troublesome issue. I won't make the same mistakes. Keep your eyes closed and the personal attacks coming. They're funny.
This is what I got from your response "The world s_ _ _ _. It's not my fault and I don't give a s _ _ _ about doing anything about it and that's why I want to ER." Correct me if this is wrong.
I have suggested solutions. I have paid money to support policital parties whose voices have been purposely silenced by the two political parties. I have done what is asked of all of us in terms of obtaining an education and being a productive member of society. I have dedicated and continue to dedicate a signficant portion of my time toward these efforts.