[The_Q]

Falcon, I was praying you would come to the real reason as I read your post. I remembered that it's too obvious for you and simply gave up after a while. I was rather disappointed. I was even more disappointed in Sam, though. C'mon, what did I tell you about being respectful to people?

Anyway, the real reason for not living like everyday were you last is because it simply costs too much. Admit it, living like that would cost a lot for you, physically, mentally and financially. I guess what I'm trying to say is that anyone who has any sense of economics would never live like that. People like having smooth lives, not too much good, not too much bad. When you suggest that you have excessively good times you imply that excessively bad times will follow. No, who's to say "why not have the good times and then suck it up all at once through the bad? A huge dose of poverty followed by (or following) a huge period of wealth can't be that bad.

Ask someone from the Great Depression whether they liked that idea. It's that kind of mentality that is wrong with our world. The idealistic, hollow bullshit that is flung out at us in English class.

Q