My father was a gambler (stock market) and my mother was a spender. Of course they were both beautiful people with many more attributes. Also we as a family never experienced a lack of any material kind. Yes i hated hand me downs, but didn't we all? And somehow now all six kids seem to be good with finances. Meaning we know our incomes and know what we can spend. Maybe that is what our parents taught us by example, to not spend more then you can afford. For sure there is also a bit of luck and a lot of good fortune.
What i am getting at is, that to be financially ok, a big part is you have to live within your means. yes?
please do tell if you disagree. All good.
But gently, i am trying to get my other point clear. Hoping you will be with me on that one too. Not that is an answer to all the worlds trouble, but maybe a helpful insight.
The one about the shortage of labor some of us are experiences.
As a society if we agree that a 40 hour work week is what we find acceptable. ( I personally would say less) but like with an income, i think we all can agree, if your income is $20.000 a year you have to live accordingly, if your rent is suddenly is $2000 a month, that is not going to work. Something has to change.
Back to the 40 hours of work a week. Take a 2000 people, of which 1000 can work. 40.000 hours of work per week. That is all the hours we have! So by saying we need more nurses, more teachers, more houses, what ever more, when collectively we just do not have the work force to fill all those positions.
That is what i am trying to say these days. We have to come up with different solutions when it comes to a shortage of workers.
Do you get what i am saying? I still do not know if i make it clear.
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What if, instead, we set a standard of living and ask, "After you achieve the standard, what do you do with the excess?"
Yes! Maybe you can give a good example.. I'm thinking in which area do i experience an excess .
well for me, it is things to do. Yes i am trying to solve that by living more simple as in not creating more things to do, which controversially i did by starting this blog. This morning i was thinking, i really want to do a post more in the trend of 'keeper of wild places' which is always my little contribution to the world.
So my way of simplifying things could be doing only a post around every 3 days, instead of every day. does that deal with excess as you mean it? probably not:)
I was thinking more of the folks who have 11 m boats, several homes with a car(s) at each one and have $20,000,000.00 in the bank. They still receive Social Security. For them, I would say, it is excess. Is their level of material wealth an acceptable standard?
yes, I agree to that. i think it is totally not acceptable to have that kind of excess.
For decades Americans have been reviled for their materialism, but now, even China has succumbed to capitalism. And the many billionaires appearing there are held up for all to envy. Greed has become accepted as natural.
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