Quote from the4xczar:
Amidst all of the negativity regarding our economy and life in general from the news media and many posters on this site: This is your opportunity to share with us WHY you are suffering so much. Explain in detail why your life is miserable. (Of course, we're all paying higher gas/some grocery item prices, but no one was crying for the oil companies when we were paying $1.00/gallon for years).
This site is supposed to be for "elite traders," but all too often people cry about how bad off they are. Anyone falling in this category of despair, please share why you are so distraught...
one side of life is suffering, so long as you are not your own God and don't have everything you want, you will suffer trying to obtain it, this is inevitable
you might not notice your suffering because of your constant focus on your hopes and goals, but don't forget eventually you will take most of your hopes and dreams to your grave, as real as your life is so is your death
each human is limited in much more ways than he is free, he has such a limited amount of capabilities that he seems nothing but a pathetic being, wondering around on this cheap planet called earth, licking balls and kissing asses, forgetting it and remembering the joy of life only when others kiss his ass, it is this exchange of service that makes them social economic beings, with no other luck in life and the inability to reach complete independence, they force themselves to believe that being social is a value
there is so much to write about how cheaply this universe system has been developed and worse than that is the ever stupid, inefficient and time wasting systems that humans have built for themselves and abide to
the exchange markets are the least that i complain about and am most happy with, and second is the internet, my only complaint is that all governments should stay out of both of them, there is no room for them in any one of these systems, and there is no need for them, these systems are self regulated even in 100% freedom, and all possible errors in them are acceptable so long as there is no government intervention, but unfortunately this is not true and it's just going to get worse by the day
. I do pay property tax and housing tax as well (but not as expensive as yours I admit). VAT is 19.6%, Capital is heavily taxed, we could almost have taxes on air we breath if they could tax it... But Besides, we have social security which is a GREAT chance. The link posted in the head post mentions a woman who had to pay 5 millions dollars for the cancer of her child. Amazing. This is taken care of by Social security in France. And we have 35 hours weeks (well, in theory...) and 5 weeks of vacation (minimum). Fortunately, we do not have a credit culture. We mainly buy what we can afford. Credit is used only for vehicles and Housing (Fixed rate, scarcely variable rates).