At this point, I'm starting to believe that we'd be lucky to only get a Great Depression.
I fear that we're looking at the collapse of our current civilization and the beginning of a new Dark Age.
At this point, I'm starting to believe that we'd be lucky to only get a Great Depression.
I fear that we're looking at the collapse of our current civilization and the beginning of a new Dark Age.
"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Schools are under local control and reflect the community. Voters put the dumbasses on the board. Some might say that they would like to return to the past and have strict schools, but few would accept having their kids subjected to old fashioned treatment. I would not if I had had children.
I have been in parent teacher conferences and seen kids call their mothers bitch and whore. In jail I have heard sons and daughters curse their parents while on the phone and tell them to get their goddamn ass up here to bail them out. Nothing is like it used to be. I had a juvenile male who killed his grandmother so he could have sex with her. And on and on. None of these examples is typical. However,.........
Today I was speaking to a young lady who works at the preschool which is a ministry of the church where I work. She is 29 years old, 3 children, just filed for divorce,and last month financed $57k for a Hyundai Palisade. I honestly have no idea how she will make it.
And as has been said before, I am a part of the generation that just can't fathom put that kind of money into a continuously depreciating product.
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Just for a fun comparison, mid-1950's vs today, all in today's money:
Average annual wage in the US: $38k
1st year for the Corvette cost roughly $39k.
Buick Skylark convertible was about $55k.
Lincoln Continental II was about $110k.
Somehow I doubt the Hyundai will appreciate like any of those did, but in fairness I'm sure most of the cars back then didn't either.
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One of my wife's grandchildren is in HS with an advanced schedule to graduate. She's my wife's GD so I can't DNA claim her. She will probably go to college on a scholarship and graduate HS with honors. So far she just likes to bake and knit in her spare time. I keep telling my wife she might be the next Rachel Ray. Drives my wife bat shit crazy. Miss V doesn't even want a drivers license. My wife got a masters degree when she was 60. I barely graduated HS but I can cook. I do 95% of the cooking here. I have a CE degree and PLS license but never used either one.
Last edited by Borderland; 08-30-2022 at 08:16 PM.
In the P-F basket of deplorables.
I’m the last guy to talk to about the people in that video. I just don’t get that thinking.
I drove to and from work today in my ‘99 Lexus. No spring chicken, that car, but it runs great, and it’s got perfect-looking heated leather seats and a banging stereo.
In case anyone is wondering how the musician over here is often seen flipping revolvers like hamburgers.
”But in the end all of these ideas just manufacture new criminals when the problem isn't a lack of criminals.” -JRB
I’ve been wanting a manual, but I also want full time 4WD (center Torsen differential), and a lo speed transfer case. There’s only 1 vechile vehicle I can find that has all three: manual FJ Cruiser. I’ve come really, really close three separate times to getting one. Visibility is a deterrent. MPG is a deterrent. Prices on used Toyota is a huge deterrent. But most of all, I keep thinking that I’d be spending all this money on a truck that gets poor gas mileage, and is has less interior space than my current Forester. I can’t pull the trigger.
If I remember correctly, the last Great Depression is what started the panoply of government benefits and social services, instead of cutting them to the bone. Something about a Deal, or something.
If you do the math, if all the consumers in the country were scrimping and saving and driving 22 year old shitboxes to save for retirement, the economy would completely collapse. It's fun to bitch at the improvident, but at a certain point you have to look at the underlying bones of the system and realize they're growing rotten.
People like to fantasize about watching the grasshopper starve in the winter because they're the ant, but I don't think very many people actually have the stomach to watch people starve or freeze to death anymore. I don't think people ever really did, hence why slums exist and banishment was a thing. Humans are pretty empathetic creatures on the whole.