The world I describe is about how people live now. It's not about zany people with unlimited, inexplicable funds in an apartment somewhere.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
Some people feel that the world owes them a living.
Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.
We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
There are still a lot of people who have the expectation that they're entitled to everything and want to pay for nothing.
And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.
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