RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Unfolding Universe (discovery channel)

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> Maybe, or maybe those poor people just know how to have fun without
> spending money. Hell I'd rather get laid than play video 
> games or watch
> tv. I don't know if I'd agree that America's standard of 
> living is really
> that satisfying. Less stuff and more free time and friends 
> sounds pretty
> damn good to me. I'd say quality of living could be defined by decent
> food, shelter, utilities, education, and healthcare. My experience has
> been that America falls short in all of those while pushing a
> materialistic culture that makes people unhappy.

It isn't that people are happy that makes a culture like ours.  It is that
people think they are pursuing happiness.

As for getting laid, you want that part, you don't want the kids, simply
because they're not convenient, useful, etc.  (generalizing, of course, you
may actually want kids, for all I know)  The less wealthy, of course, have
different views.  Kids are labor, tax exemptions, etc.
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