Otherwise known as a motorbike or bicycle.

And he was just One guy.

How does that work for medications? Or eyeglasses? Can you expect to get a job when you can't see?

You can, right now. Welfare is an option for everyone, so ask yourself, if it is so great, why aren't you doing it?

You've answered your own question.

Oh yeah? Back in my day, we didn't have any of that fancy modem stuff. I had to punch holes in cards and wait in line to run a program. When our school finally got a computer with a screen, it was always snowing. I remember...programming was uphill. Both ways...but we were happy back then. Kids these days don't know how good they've got it.

The man said he didn't care about social value. My point is that there is value in social relationships and it is foolish to only look at monetary relationships.

Education of women and urbanization are two major drags on population growth. These two factors might be enough to avoid catastrophe but it is going to be a close call.

The point is that your friends help you out. The reference to wealth is the only way to communicate such radical concepts to people who only believe in money.

How about Somalia? Not too much statist socialism happening there?

If you think everyone else is an idiot, this could explain why you have no social wealth. When your friends help you with something that you otherwise would have had to pay for, that is part of your social wealth. It's not all about money.

Don't forget to add the sin taxes. Up here in Canuckistan, smokers pay a heavy tax to smoke and there is tax on junk food. Now the obese and smokers look more like a revenue stream.

Any chance that the camp had a bias against fat people and executed them first?

You have never been on the wrong end of a hostile takeover.

Aren't these the same people who said that a rising tide raises all boats?