When Can We Start Breaking Things?

[Fragony]

Like the family dog? Content with table scraps and the occasional pat?

They can keep their scraps and pats, I don't mind inequality. I don't think it's unfair that they can buy a 50 million yaght and I can't.

[Major Robert Dump]

Until our government leadership adopts rules akin to insider trading laws, none of this will ever begin to change. It benefits our leaders and the financial sector for the rest of us to be in financial and social rough waters. It aslo benefits the government machine.

All this money given in the bailouts and we really have nothing to show. Instead of letting the businesses fail, a vacuum form and another business rise to meet the demand ... greased palms handed over trillions to the inept business men and women who could not run their own house to begin with, all under the guise of "saving jobs" and "maintaining sector stability."

To me, social issues take a far back burner to issues like the one mentioned above. This is how you unravel the framework of a nation. The mere existence and financial windfall of the Lobby Industry I think speaks volumes of what we are up against.

This is why I am cashing out, removing every penny I have from the US market, and investing (and eventually moving) to another nation. I'm not going to play this game of pretend capitalism anymore, I will go somewhere where the game is self evident, whatever it may be. I just feel like I cannot compete here anymore, for multiple reasons to include abuse by the financial sector, but also including various social and political realities.

**edit: And no, I am not rich nor does my family enjoy anything above a middle working class lifestyle, I am not like the people in the article.

[Papewaio]

Economies go up and down all the time. The key is to pursue what makes you happy.

I can remember in the 90s unemploment rates of 10% for the general workforce and about double that for young people.

I was working in gold exploration in '99/2000 when 90% of the explorers in WA were laid off. Then I went into web design / IT support for a small stock broker... 6 weeks later the NASDAQ crashed.

Moved to Sydney and 2 years at a contact centre vendor. They made record support income, USA regional sales crashed. So they got rid of South East Asian support including Sydney.

I'm a contractor because I'm a mercenary. I'm a mercenary because I know business only sees numbers and that I'm just one of them. So I might as well get as much as possible and be able to leave and go somewhere else.

I also keep my costs down. My stipend is $60 a week. My place a 2 bedroom villa of 90sqm, an hour commute to work on public transport (bonus of getting a train trip across the Harbour bridge), buy my shoes on specials, eat wheat bix for breakfast, buy 90% of my games months after release etc etc

So stop whining and either fix the system or find another game to play.