>From: Dehede011@aol.com
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: Fear of Letting People Get Things They Want
>Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 10:12:16 EDT
>
>In a message dated 9/23/00 3:17:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>samantha@objectent.com writes:<< There is a survival advantage only in a
>world of scarcity where even mere surival actually is pretty problematic.
>The trouble is we haven't thought past genetic conditioning that is largely
>outmoded. - samantha >>
>
>Samantha,
> Can you imagine the greed, jealousy and short sightedness present in
>people that don't want to see others have anything?
> I was raised in a poor segment of society. Early on I was let hnow
>that
>my ticket out was in "hitting the books." When I was in college I was
>ridiculed gently by my friends for not going to work and "making some
>money."
> Early in my career, the "sphagetti years," those same friends offered to
>help me get a "good job." Then when things came my way they said, "I never
>had it lucky like you." Now that we are all retired they want the
>"govament"
>to give them more. They never connect the dots and realise the money to
>"give them more" will come from their very children that need the money to
>raise their grandchildren. Yet statistics show that we retirees have more
>discretionary income than the group that is raising children. Greed and
>lack
>of foresight.
>Ron H.
So then what are you saying? You worked harder thna others and
*prevailed*...over them?
Thanks for making my point: society is a competition...there are winnners
and losers.
And BTW, what effect did timing and luck have to do with the relattive
wealth of the WWII-Korean War generation?
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