In a related note, does anyone has a slight tickle of devastation curiosity?
Let me explain...
You know how, if there is a hurricane or tornado warning, you're scared but also curious and a little excited? Even though devastation and disaster is headed your way, the scale and scope of the circumstance has your morbid fascination looking out the window at the rolling storm clouds?
Well, that's how I've been feeling the last few months. I hate that the economy is tanking, but I've also got this embarrassing little part of my brain that oddly enjoys the faltering. Every time the DOW plummets, I think, "man, I wonder how low it can go!"
In a related note, does anyone has a slight tickle of devastation curiosity?
Let me explain...
You know how, if there is a hurricane or tornado warning, you're scared but also curious and a little excited? Even though devastation and disaster is headed your way, the scale and scope of the circumstance has your morbid fascination looking out the window at the rolling storm clouds?
Well, that's how I've been feeling the last few months. I hate that the economy is tanking, but I've also got this embarrassing little part of my brain that oddly enjoys the faltering. Every time the DOW plummets, I think, "man, I wonder how low it can go!"
In a related note, does anyone has a slight tickle of devastation curiosity?
Let me explain...
You know how, if there is a hurricane or tornado warning, you're scared but also curious and a little excited? Even though devastation and disaster is headed your way, the scale and scope of the circumstance has your morbid fascination looking out the window at the rolling storm clouds?
Well, that's how I've been feeling the last few months. I hate that the economy is tanking, but I've also got this embarrassing little part of my brain that oddly enjoys the faltering. Every time the DOW plummets, I think, "man, I wonder how low it can go!"
In a related note, does anyone has a slight tickle of devastation curiosity?
Let me explain...
You know how, if there is a hurricane or tornado warning, you're scared but also curious and a little excited? Even though devastation and disaster is headed your way, the scale and scope of the circumstance has your morbid fascination looking out the window at the rolling storm clouds?
Well, that's how I've been feeling the last few months. I hate that the economy is tanking, but I've also got this embarrassing little part of my brain that oddly enjoys the faltering. Every time the DOW plummets, I think, "man, I wonder how low it can go!"
I kind of have this feeling. I have this morbid thought of "when are the bankers going to start leaping from their skyscrapers?".
In a related note, does anyone has a slight tickle of devastation curiosity?
Let me explain...
You know how, if there is a hurricane or tornado warning, you're scared but also curious and a little excited? Even though devastation and disaster is headed your way, the scale and scope of the circumstance has your morbid fascination looking out the window at the rolling storm clouds?
Well, that's how I've been feeling the last few months. I hate that the economy is tanking, but I've also got this embarrassing little part of my brain that oddly enjoys the faltering. Every time the DOW plummets, I think, "man, I wonder how low it can go!"
I go out on my porch and howl like a mad man. All throwing back 40ozs and telling the sky to go fuck itself.
Then stop worrying. Yes, you won't get rich, but you'll be happy.
Take it from me; I had a job that was completely unsatisfying but provided me lots of financial benefits. And in the end, the money wasn't worth it. Now I'm desperately trying to get back into the field I loved before I'm too old and close-minded to actually do anything worthwhile.
Then stop worrying. Yes, you won't get rich, but you'll be happy.
Take it from me; I had a job that was completely unsatisfying but provided me lots of financial benefits. And in the end, the money wasn't worth it. Now I'm desperately trying to get back into the field I loved before I'm too old and close-minded to actually do anything worthwhile.
I'll be fighting people on the streets to get the carcass of a dead baby to gnaw on.
Also, we tried doing nothing. We tried industry self-regulation when we got rid of oversight. Look how well that worked.
I agree that government isn't always the solution, but I don't think government is always the problem. I'd rather pro-actively fuck our country then sit back and let it get worse all on its own.
Industry self-regulation works, and it is working right now. The problem is that the time it will take for the economy to start climbing back towards that golden steady state is further away then people want it to be.
We are not nearly as hard corps as we once were, and that is a cost in and of itself.
ok, first let me say that it is hard core, as in the core of your being is tough. a hard corps would be the marines.
Now, you are such a fucking faggot. Hundreds of thousands of people are losing work and starving because of people like you. greed has cut our country down. the people who were not regulated are not suffering, they have not lost anything except the ability to make more millions. this nation's (and the world's) economy is on the brink because people were looking the other way and allowing this shit to happen.
I'm not swinging some kind of communist dick here. I'm not a socialist. Regulations are needed because people are greedy motherfuckers and you're the worst sort of all of them because you believe your own diarrheal shit
Oh, there are two different spellings for corps, guess that works thanks.
You are right in that greed has cut our country down, lack of foresight and planning has led to this. After this fall better systems will be put into place that increase our productivity that much more. It's called growing, and it is not a bad thing.
If we let things fail, there is enough wealth still in our system to get the economy rolling back 10-15 years down the line. And it would be much stronger then the economy we are forcing together now. These numbers are completely out of my ass, it could easily be 20+ years.
The way we are going is only promoting this greed.
ok this is such a silly, spurious argument but no, to say that Americans are not hard corps any more makes no god damned sense. That means we aren't all in the marines or fucking peace corps any more. to be hard core is to be tough or gritty or steadfast.
In any case, saying that the country is promoting greed by spending money to give new jobs and try and stabilize the economy is stupid. You're also advocating people wallow in poverty with no escape just because you think it might could possibly be better 10 to 15 years down the line. Are you insane?
You can tell wearied mothers who can't feed their children that it will all be better on down the road.
Well, it's not promoting greed by spending money but by preventing consequences of our actions to actively effect us in the long term.
Also, I am interested in the health of the US in the long term, not the short term. That might mean mothers can't feed their starving babies because the economy is in the shitter (I highly doubt it would become that way unless the parents were being irresponsible).
We expect way to much out of our society as far as luxuries and ease goes, I think we need to take a step back from that. Maybe I am just one of those young old fashioned kind of people.
I don't see why you are so worried about the economy, misbehavin. Aren't you better off than pretty much everyone else here?
If the value of the dollar plummets, my moneys will only be able to buy me bread for a week.
In all seriousness, I'm not that worried, except for my retirement funds that are still locked up in the stock market.
I'm ~$10,000 in debt doing a degree with no career viability.
Oh, whatever.
When I finished my masters, I was 110K in debt. And I was a physics major! Not exactly a "get rich quick" type of degree.
Just get out there and make moneys however you can.
Philosophy. Not really a 'get rich ever' kind of a degree.
If this is a major concern for you, why did you study philosophy?
Hell if I know. I used to be really fucking good at Chemistry.
You know, you can change your degree program pretty simply. Unless you're about set to graduate, I'd say it might be worth it.
But I like Philosophy
law school
More debt! Work at a soulless job to pay off said debt!
write self help books and make millions. make money translating hard to understand philosophy books to the general public.
The problem with writing self help is that people only want to read some garbage about how if you believe in something it will come true, or that if you think you're cool then you become cool or whathaveyou, which is something I could never write. My brain would literally not let me write it and would shut itself off if I even tried to.
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Also, we tried doing nothing. We tried industry self-regulation when we got rid of oversight. Look how well that worked.
I agree that government isn't always the solution, but I don't think government is always the problem. I'd rather pro-actively fuck our country then sit back and let it get worse all on its own.
Industry self-regulation works, and it is working right now. The problem is that the time it will take for the economy to start climbing back towards that golden steady state is further away then people want it to be.
We are not nearly as hard corps as we once were, and that is a cost in and of itself.
ok, first let me say that it is hard core, as in the core of your being is tough. a hard corps would be the marines.
Now, you are such a fucking faggot. Hundreds of thousands of people are losing work and starving because of people like you. greed has cut our country down. the people who were not regulated are not suffering, they have not lost anything except the ability to make more millions. this nation's (and the world's) economy is on the brink because people were looking the other way and allowing this shit to happen.
I'm not swinging some kind of communist dick here. I'm not a socialist. Regulations are needed because people are greedy motherfuckers and you're the worst sort of all of them because you believe your own diarrheal shit
Oh, there are two different spellings for corps, guess that works thanks.
You are right in that greed has cut our country down, lack of foresight and planning has led to this. After this fall better systems will be put into place that increase our productivity that much more. It's called growing, and it is not a bad thing.
If we let things fail, there is enough wealth still in our system to get the economy rolling back 10-15 years down the line. And it would be much stronger then the economy we are forcing together now. These numbers are completely out of my ass, it could easily be 20+ years.
The way we are going is only promoting this greed.
ok this is such a silly, spurious argument but no, to say that Americans are not hard corps any more makes no god damned sense. That means we aren't all in the marines or fucking peace corps any more. to be hard core is to be tough or gritty or steadfast.
In any case, saying that the country is promoting greed by spending money to give new jobs and try and stabilize the economy is stupid. You're also advocating people wallow in poverty with no escape just because you think it might could possibly be better 10 to 15 years down the line. Are you insane?
You can tell wearied mothers who can't feed their children that it will all be better on down the road.
Well, it's not promoting greed by spending money but by preventing consequences of our actions to actively effect us in the long term.
Also, I am interested in the health of the US in the long term, not the short term. That might mean mothers can't feed their starving babies because the economy is in the shitter (I highly doubt it would become that way unless the parents were being irresponsible).
We expect way to much out of our society as far as luxuries and ease goes, I think we need to take a step back from that. Maybe I am just one of those young old fashioned kind of people.
Well, it's not promoting greed by spending money but by preventing consequences of our actions to actively effect us in the long term.
Also, I am interested in the health of the US in the long term, not the short term. That might mean mothers can't feed their starving babies because the economy is in the shitter (I highly doubt it would become that way unless the parents were being irresponsible).
We expect way to much out of our society as far as luxuries and ease goes, I think we need to take a step back from that. Maybe I am just one of those young old fashioned kind of people.
Only Jigrah could equate a super-starvation-level diet with a "luxury."
The problem with writing self help is that people only want to read some garbage about how if you believe in something it will come true, or that if you think you're cool then you become cool or whathaveyou, which is something I could never write. My brain would literally not let me write it and would shut itself off if I even tried to.
i think that with the current political/social climate, you could actually write a very critical and cynical self help book that people would eat up. that way, you draw in the crowd who would read it for irony/humor, and the people who actually need someone to tell them to shape the fuck up.
The problem with writing self help is that people only want to read some garbage about how if you believe in something it will come true, or that if you think you're cool then you become cool or whathaveyou, which is something I could never write. My brain would literally not let me write it and would shut itself off if I even tried to.
i think that with the current political/social climate, you could actually write a very critical and cynical self help book that people would eat up. that way, you draw in the crowd who would read it for irony/humor, and the people who actually need someone to tell them to shape the fuck up.
Whenever I post my problems here, thats exactly what I'm hoping for. Someone to tell me to shape the fuck up and stop crying about whatever my problem at the time is.
I just remembered a game we played in Economics senior year.
It was a computer online game thing
Basically each group of 4 had a company they ran that each sold the same product. And we competed against each other to see who could run it the best.
My group destroyed the economy bu throwing all of our money into R&D until we had the best product that you could make and sold it for $10 then our competitors and all of the sudden every other group went bankrupt but we coulden't afford to make enough product to meet demand and where flat broke and went out of business.
The problem with writing self help is that people only want to read some garbage about how if you believe in something it will come true, or that if you think you're cool then you become cool or whathaveyou, which is something I could never write. My brain would literally not let me write it and would shut itself off if I even tried to.
i think that with the current political/social climate, you could actually write a very critical and cynical self help book that people would eat up. that way, you draw in the crowd who would read it for irony/humor, and the people who actually need someone to tell them to shape the fuck up.
'The reason other people think you're fat is that you think you're ugly and fat.'
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He is the true answer.
Look at it this way, you should be able to figure out why you did it once you finish your degree.
Why?
law school
your loss. best four years of my life.
Let me explain...
You know how, if there is a hurricane or tornado warning, you're scared but also curious and a little excited? Even though devastation and disaster is headed your way, the scale and scope of the circumstance has your morbid fascination looking out the window at the rolling storm clouds?
Well, that's how I've been feeling the last few months. I hate that the economy is tanking, but I've also got this embarrassing little part of my brain that oddly enjoys the faltering. Every time the DOW plummets, I think, "man, I wonder how low it can go!"
More debt! Work at a soulless job to pay off said debt!
i'm like this with bad news in the media
so um..what do we want to sell?
I mean, I assume that's what you're doing.
Because there's really nothing else for you to do as a philosophy major.
edit: Langly makes a good point. I'm starting my JD next semester, but I was a historical economics major.
I kind of have this feeling. I have this morbid thought of "when are the bankers going to start leaping from their skyscrapers?".
I go out on my porch and howl like a mad man. All throwing back 40ozs and telling the sky to go fuck itself.
Then stop worrying. Yes, you won't get rich, but you'll be happy.
Take it from me; I had a job that was completely unsatisfying but provided me lots of financial benefits. And in the end, the money wasn't worth it. Now I'm desperately trying to get back into the field I loved before I'm too old and close-minded to actually do anything worthwhile.
Leg warmers.
They're making a comeback.
write self help books and make millions. make money translating hard to understand philosophy books to the general public.
Actually about 98% of universities in America offer an informal Minor in the subject.
I know I was enrolled.
Well, it's not promoting greed by spending money but by preventing consequences of our actions to actively effect us in the long term.
Also, I am interested in the health of the US in the long term, not the short term. That might mean mothers can't feed their starving babies because the economy is in the shitter (I highly doubt it would become that way unless the parents were being irresponsible).
We expect way to much out of our society as far as luxuries and ease goes, I think we need to take a step back from that. Maybe I am just one of those young old fashioned kind of people.
"His death was so sudden"
Ah alcohol poisoning...
so you place food in the luxuries category
interesting
It's too late. I have already summoned Doom. It's all a matter of time before he reveals himself.
Only Jigrah could equate a super-starvation-level diet with a "luxury."
edit SAAAATAAAAAAANNNNN
Lets just steal the bottled farts idea. It's clearly the energy of the future and will soon be more precious than oil...
i think that with the current political/social climate, you could actually write a very critical and cynical self help book that people would eat up. that way, you draw in the crowd who would read it for irony/humor, and the people who actually need someone to tell them to shape the fuck up.
Actually, I've got a great business idea to help prevent what happened from happening again. I should actually really get to that.
I will eventually need an Angel Investor, how about you Misbehavin? You up for wildly risky but huge potential business adventure?
It's not actually that risky.
well yeah but i was just going off what jigrah said
it's more fun that way
Whenever I post my problems here, thats exactly what I'm hoping for. Someone to tell me to shape the fuck up and stop crying about whatever my problem at the time is.
It was a computer online game thing
Basically each group of 4 had a company they ran that each sold the same product. And we competed against each other to see who could run it the best.
My group destroyed the economy bu throwing all of our money into R&D until we had the best product that you could make and sold it for $10 then our competitors and all of the sudden every other group went bankrupt but we coulden't afford to make enough product to meet demand and where flat broke and went out of business.
Our teacher was pretty pissed.
rblhrlbhrb my brain