Loading ...Nothing is ever wasted………
Bucky once asked, “If you are out treading water in the ocean, from a sinking ship you were on, what is more valuable, a bar of gold or a piano top?
When calamity hits, do we chose disrepair or appreciation?
What good may come from all of this present viral infection? Nothing is ever wasted in nature……..
For starters, we have been very ill prepared for this world wide virus, might we be more prepared for next time? How could we not be!
And if a next one is worse?
Another huge impact from this virus has been the world wide increase of telecommuting, working from home. Haven’t we had insanely congested traffic, enormous amounts of pollution from it? Pollution that has affected our air, water and health? Commuting times that waste millions of hours by having to drive? Guzzling enormous numbers of gallons of gas? Parents away from home long hours every day?
How much more we might appreciate our health care workers, grocery store workers, sanitation supply makers?
How about all of us appreciating life, our families and what we have rather than insatiable appetites for getting more of everything?
I continue to hear this everyday from friends and relatives………The list goes on!!!!
Nothing is ever wasted in nature………
This is a great message Sir Steins
Thanks
I was actually thinking about how you’ve stayed upbeat and thinking about how so often there is great good that comes from desperate times.
It’s important to stay optimistic…..Thank you!
Amen
Steins
Lessons need to be learned the hard way. The COVID-19 virus is just the icing on the cake.
The western world has catered to the Baby Boom Generation since it’s inception bankrupting the entire world in it’s wake. This 6 Trillion Corporate Communist Welfare is to prop up Baby Boomers pensions while enslaving multiple future generations in it’s wake. See it for what it is. The Baby Boomers have never paid there own way ever……!
I agree nothing in nature is ever wasted. Natature may be at the pinnacle of righting all the wrongs western society has unjustly burdened on the rest of the world and future generations.
GLTA
Hey Steins Alfa8 North
Looks like it’s all OUR fault
We never contributed nothing to society
Just borrowed from the future
🙁
“The Baby Boomers have never paid there own way ever……!”
Nonsense. Baby Boomer and Silent Generation folks are going to leave their Kids and Grandkids very nice Inheritances as a result of their Hard Work and Investment Acumen. The Kids Will Be Fine.
Damn right we are .
LOL! Yes Alfa, I and most of my friends, mostly in the trades, have worked hard for decades, saving and looking forward to retirement.
I’m going on 70 and still work nearly everyday and weekends, though not as many hours, I have to get in my three days a week of tennis! LOL!
When I had my commercial dive job I put in a thousand hour a year under water! If that’s not paying my own way I don’t know what is!
Most of my friends are more workaholics than not!
The FED and every other western government has had the Boomers back at every turn the global debt is the legacy. Tell your grandkids how wholesome you are I don’t need to here it. The FED continues to be the enabler until the system cascades under it’s own weight. If not then why are you ”Gold Bugs”?
I ask you why is the FED buying now? Why would the FED approve unlimited stimulus now? Why not at the bottom?
The fed is NOT bailing out the “Boomers”…not only the Boomers…they are bailing everybody out
All the generations.
They are not targeting one generation…This is nuts that you are blaming folks like me for all this debt
I have NO debt…zero…paid it all down whenever I could…most of us do.
Are you saying that my generation is the cause of this ?
maybe some of the Characters like Trump and Greenspan and Bernanke and guys like that in power who want to stay in power and happen to be Boomers
But to blame the whole lot of us is sicko !
Do YOU have debt ? Maybe its YOU that are the problem Red
It has been a self fulfilling prophecy. Follow the money Fully….. do I blame you of course not Fully or anybody else personally No! The fact is we are “Gold Bugs” for a reason. The reason being the system broke a long time ago……why did it break and who benefited from it just follow the money.
What I don’t want is the charade to continue spending not our money for the benefit of pensions. I’m not a Boomer and I don’t owe one red cent to anyone. Have I benefited from the fraud of the western financial system yes, and I banked the mofo shit out of it yes I have….I’m a “Gold Bug” because IMO the CB’s made a bubble and nature called their bluff with COVID-19. Just let the bubble burst FFS……you me and everyone else pay the piper. If you didn’t bank during the FED Put then not my problem and don’t make it your grandchildren’s problem just my .02.
The 6 Trillion of late is complete BS. Don’t point fingers at the Millenials and what they want/need this is a Boomer/Gen X catastrophe and pay up like a f$&cking man or woman. Are you a “”Gold Bug”? If you are then you knew this was coming ffs.
If you think you need the Fed to bail you out IMO go find another site to cry the blues.
Again don’t make this you grandkids problem, grow some ffs……..
At a personal level I completely agree with you. I fear our political and financial overlords will also not let this catastrophe go to waste…
Remote work is a great solution to reduce pollution. Someone told me we used to have to go downtown because all the infra was there to do our work. In the IT world… high bandwidth was available in downtown Montreal. But now.. we all have high speed bandwidth. Multi-video conference calls.. etc.. all possible. I still like human contact.. but even doing 50% remote would alleviate alot of that pollution/stres.. costs to infrastructures.. highways.. accidents.. etc… So.. my point is.. before covid.. a lot of old school management frowned upon remote work..” if I don’t see you in your cubicle.. you are not sdoing any work”… Covid has flipped the script… those not offering remote work will lose potential candidats… Hey no more rush hour.. who wants in?