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Comment Re:I think the constant threat of homelessness (Score 1) 143

Thanks, but it's ok.

I would not even really care if I didn't have a 9 year old child. That's the part that sucks. I've got little confidence in my wife's parenting ability. I think the odds of her raising him to be a loser are very high.

All I can do is leave him a lot of money in a trust and a book of advice and hope for the best.

Comment Re:I think the constant threat of homelessness (Score 1) 143

Thanks.

Just to continue the thought.....my vehicle is 18 years old.

Could I buy a new vehicle? Sure. I could buy anything I could reasonably want, and a surprising amount of stuff I unreasonably want. And pay cash too.

But you know how you DON'T get ahead? Buying everything you want. Especially expensive things that you want. Double especially depreciating assets that you want.

I have owned exactly ONE brand new car in my 54 years on Earth. It's the 18 year old one I'm currently driving. I've owned exactly two cars in the last 30 years (the other one was 3 years old when I got it). That's another way to get ahead. Taking care of your vehicle and getting the most out of it and the depreciation that comes with it.

People today making modest incomes bitch about not being able to buy a new car. Cry me a river. Buy something you can afford, you're gonna be better off in the long run. Don't succumb to the feeling that you have to have new shit all the time.

Comment Re:You responded to your own question (Score 1) 143

Except the question isn't whether WE, as a society are more stupid, but rather are YOU, specifically, more stupid.

Do YOU know how to do math without a calculator?

Do YOU know how to use a map?

I'm going to guess yes. So here are some examples of technology that you trust that have not made you less capable doing it "the old way". I'm guessing here, for you, for me, they certainly haven't.

Someone else here said that people were already morons. I agree. My guess is that if people can't use a map or do math, it's because they never learned it in the first place, not because they learned these skills and somehow lost them because technology came along.

Morons maybe a little harsh, but convenient term.

Consider the ability to write well. Either you learned how, or you didn't. From what I've seen, most people don't learn this skill, and certainly that was true before essay writers and the like came along. Some of the shit I read from my freshman peers in 1989-1990 was unbelievable awful. And that was at a decent school too (Virginia Tech).

Now, what these tools like calculators and LLMS may do is keep someone from learning a skill in the first place. But diminish skills they already have? I don't think so.

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