[ExI] extropy-chat Digest, Vol 215, Issue 40

[William Flynn Wallace]

I don't get the link between the gov's changing and people changing.  The
gov is not exactly most people's role model or ideal.

All around the world people think we are decadent.  Greedy.  Rigid. Low
morals. Arrogant.  They do like our movies and such.  We think we are the
good guys because we can buy all this stuff.  "Whoever dies with the most
stuff wins."

Maybe I should write a country song about it.  I know all about 'stuff',
being poor most of my life.  Saving up for cameras and stereo gear, not
willing to put up with just average equipment.

You could help supply some lyrics, I reckon.

bill w

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 5:55 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *>…*Right now average credit card debt is several thousand dollars -
> around 7000.  How to get them to act more responsibly?  bill w
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> Step 1: balance the US federal budget.
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> Step 2: make a constitutional amendment that requires a balanced federal
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> Reasoning: the recently-proposed government spending alone, just the stuff
> currently being voted on, is well above 7k per US citizen.  The existing
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