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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
it all depends on what you want to define as a "Decent Life"
use to be a time when you lived a decent life if you had 3 square meals and a roof over your head. people were happy gathering together on a sunday afternoon for dinner.
now, it seems, that you need internet, cable TV, Iphones, 2 $50k auto's complete with entertainment systems, annual trips to Disney, and so on before you can call it a "Decent life"
Kids used to be happy with a crappy bike and they'd go outside all day and play. Now they need multiple $500 Gaming Systems, Dance lessons, Athletic camps, $200 sneakers, their own iPhone at 10, and they still sit around and bitch that they have nothing to do.
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Very good point. I guess I define it as exactly middle class. Used to be, you could leave your high school graduation, go to a local manufacturing plant, and be middle class. I think those opportunities are fewer and further between.
And I have come to believe, as I presume that you do, that scouting is a decent antidote to all that crap.