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So Robin, let me make sure I understand the nonsense you're spewing. The solution to not working, is to in fact work, but for yourself instead. Set aside the fact that this isn't actually a solution, do you not see why this is far less efficient than specializing in things and creating economies of scale? You probably don't, because you are clearly a fool.

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01-30-2015 , 12:25 PM

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Robin Agrees

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So you would have millions of people living out their lives in jobs they hate?

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“I have a job where I alphabetize insurance forms for 45 hours a week, and I noticed I couldn’t concentrate so well in my job, so my doctor put me on Adderall, and now I can just breeze through my work day. I don’t even notice that my empty life is being pissed away underneath fluorescent tubes. I have no highs or lows. I have no good stories. But I’m getting a lot of stuff done. I’m probably the most boring person I know, but look at me produce.” - Doug Stanhope

The key here is finding jobs people love themselves doing this is not the same as "but for yourself instead" as you have said.

Government create endless bureaucracy jobs, that is endless amount of book keeping about book keeping, endless red tape, endless amount of definition of terms about terms etc...its mind blowing. My point is I'm less concerned about balancing the books but more about creating jobs that people themselves love to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LUCOcilwjA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbVhbQPblNY

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01-31-2015 , 08:13 PM

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Doc T River

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Originally Posted by Octavian

I first learned from my grandmother how to play Monopoly.

My grandmother was a wonderful person she coached me how to play the game of Monopoly. She understood that the name of the game was to acquire. She will accumulate everything she could and eventually she become the master of the board. And than she will always say the same thing to me; she would say: “One day you will learn how to play the game”

One summer I played Monopoly almost every day all day long, and in that summer I learned how to play the game. I come to understand that the only way to win I had to make a total commitment to acquisition. I come to understand that money in possession is the way to keep the score. And by the end of that summer I was more ruthless than my grandmother. I was ready to bend the rules if I had to win the game. And I sad down with her to play that fall. I took everything she had, I watch her give her last dollar and quit in utter defeat.

And then she had one more thing to teach me; Than she said: “Now everything goes back in the box” All those houses and hotels, all those railroads and utilities companies, all that property and all that wonderful money, now all has got to go back in that box. “None of all was really yours” she said.., “You got it hid it all for a while” ..., “All that property was there long time before you sat down at the board and it will be after you’re gone. .., Player come and players go”...,

Houses and cars, titles and clothes, even your body, because the fact is: everything I consume it’s going go back in the box. I’m gonna lose it all back in the end.
You have to ask yourself: When you finally get to the all time high, when you make to ultimate purchase, when you buy the ultimate home, when you have the ultimate financial security and climb the ladder of success ..., and the thrill wares off, and it will ware off. Than what? - How far you have to walk that road? - before you see where it leads?

Surely, you understand, it will never be enough. So, you have to ask yourself the question: “What matters?”

Was your grandmother a Mormon by chance? What she said sounds like a variation of The Pearl of Great Price.

Last edited by Doc T River; 01-31-2015 at 08:14 PM. Reason: Yes, I know the parable is also in the mainstream Christian Bible.

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