Unsteady income in young adulthood linked to thinking problems in middle age

Post by celticmusic » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 2:01 PM UTC

dpq wrote: post #258

celticmusic wrote: post #75

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That is absolutely not what happened with the USSR.

Do you object to the notion that the USSR, like any country, was in a way an imaginary entity, or to the notion that it mainly ceased to exist because the its citizens decided to imagine something else and actually pulled it off?

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...

> When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all.

Post by InitialLastName » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 9:55 PM UTC

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #54

abledon wrote: post #28

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seems like people need to enter a 'team' mindset, where you share cooking duties with roommates etc.. trying to help each other pull themselves out of poverty. ofc this is 0.1% likely to happen, but when it does, i think it would work.

When you're in constant survival mode, it's hard to think like that. How can you spare the time helping someone else when you're already drowning?

The difficult thing is that we've gone a long way towards eliminating the tight-knit communities from our society. It's a lot easier to coordinate resource and effort sharing with people you've known your entire life (family, family-ish, and church cohorts).

Even just the church tradition of organizing bringing food to somebody in the community who is sick, indisposed or undergoing a stressful time in their lives (think: just had a kid) is falling by the wayside.

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