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Jaebius

Jaebius

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How is it some people own and drive multiple vehicles, while others of us must take public transit?
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
I thought you said one time that you have a medical condition that doesn’t allow you to drive….or maybe I imagined that.
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Wow, good memory Mrs.A. Yes, I have epilepsy. The law was that I had to go a year without a seizure in order to get my license. I finally managed to first have such a year in my 60s. I'm now legally able to get a license, but the cost of getting insurance would be astronomical :alien:

But when I ask howzit, I'm doing so more in a philosophical bigger picture way
 
In a pious state that I once resided ... they said philosophical was the worst kind of evil ... and thus such questions must be left behind ... for corporate advantages to take over as observed if without bland faith ... a great supporter of Trump recently related to me that he was hood winked ... can that be explained away ... like beyond here and now, or hear and know? Mute ...

May explain destructive power in belief in powerful people governing alone ... a dream of impossible hero and god creation? Diabolical ... comes in 2's or mores ... blossoming ... can fill fields with sunshine ... with us not knowing anything of the logic thereof as it is beyond us ... as children of great will ...

Can I make this up as you look about at the chaos ... I was rejected, terminated disposed of ... metaphorically, I don exist ... Heis abstract ...
 
Imagine that ... being beyond the pool ... Late Night on Air? Disembodied ... ---> dissociated, beam edout ... yah said yesua ... in Semitic the A --> stroke approximating an "I" on slant ... if you read some of it there is a different slant or view ... and there it was done gone ...

Like Hellen a Dale was like Allen in the dell ... intoxicated with the bottom of the container? Thick stuff ... Shenandoah ... life is like that because of what is not told to yah straight ... because all are fretting about imperfection ... perfectly out of it ?
 
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Its because the winners gather power of physical wealth and give little value to any lessor virtue ... and thus thoughts sinks like crap ... i.e. how knowledge and associated stuff that is referred to as little value ends up down there in the heap ...

In such delinquency the bottom regularly falls out as fresh knowledge flows by the creature forming the bridge ... it may be transcalent in nature ... just passing in lumps ... some declare it transcendent as it may go up and down with the levels, layers and all such as stacked on the Levi? Really just a groove in the landscape ... here it is said some disposed of thought sinks in ... subtle?
 
If you have two drivers in your household who need to be going different places at the same time, you own two vehicles. Simple as that. We tried juggling one car for a while but that was during the pandemic when I wasn't going to the office every work day. Perhaps once I retire so I am not tying up a car for five days a week, we will drop one.

Transit in this city just doesn't work well and our neighborhood is poorly serviced. Getting anywhere from my home by bus means a minimum of 1 transfer, possibly 2-3. You're in Asia where they tend to do transit and mass transport in general better than us North Americans. If I lived in Shanghai, I probably wouldn't own any cars, just make sure I lived near a subway line.

Or maybe that kind of practical scenario isn't what you have in mind? I mean, there's the scenarios where someone has a summer-only sports car or two cars and then a truck to pull their trailer or whatever. I can see some of those being open to question, but they are also rarer in my experience. Most families in my neighbourhood have 2, maybe 3, vehicles in their driveway. And that third could easily be an adult child or other adult besides the core couple (au pair, relative rooming in, etc.). I don't really see that there is a big problem with people splurging on vehicles, in other words. People buying more car than they need, sure. Buying a full-sized truck or SUV when you're mostly using it for shopping and commuting that could be handled with a compact car or CUV is waste of a lot things (gas, money, emissions). But most people I know have a reason for owning what they own.
 
Imagine the variance and deviance that occurs ... particularly from the ordinary as designed to be poor for some rationale! The unseen noiliest ... swears there is nothing ili about them ... dah ill of the myth ... great heap under there ...
 
Mendalla said:
If you have two drivers in your household who need to be going different places at the same time, you own two vehicles. Simple as that. We tried juggling one car for a while but that was during the pandemic when I wasn't going to the office every work day. Perhaps once I retire so I am not tying up a car for five days a week, we will drop one.

Transit in this city just doesn't work well and our neighborhood is poorly serviced. Getting anywhere from my home by bus means a minimum of 1 transfer, possibly 2-3. You're in Asia where they tend to do transit and mass transport in general better than us North Americans. If I lived in Shanghai, I probably wouldn't own any cars, just make sure I lived near a subway line.

Or maybe that kind of practical scenario isn't what you have in mind? I mean, there's the scenarios where someone has a summer-only sports car or two cars and then a truck to pull their trailer or whatever. I can see some of those being open to question, but they are also rarer in my experience. Most families in my neighbourhood have 2, maybe 3, vehicles in their driveway. And that third could easily be an adult child or other adult besides the core couple (au pair, relative rooming in, etc.). I don't really see that there is a big problem with people splurging on vehicles, in other words. People buying more car than they need, sure. Buying a full-sized truck or SUV when you're mostly using it for shopping and commuting that could be handled with a compact car or CUV is waste of a lot things (gas, money, emissions). But most people I know have a reason for owning what they own.
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We have a full size pickup for work and weekends, and a VW Golf for a runabout and commuter car. At some point, my parents will stop driving their 4Runner and my daughter could use a vehicle. If she can help her grandparents on some weekends, I can see her with the 4Runner, the Golf or perhaps a different vehicle. So we will be a 3 vehicle family inside of the next 3 years. It's almost inevitable because there is no transit where we live, and we can do it.

As for the economics of personal transportation, that's a different conversation. Our parents saved until they were upper middle class and so we have those advantages of higher education, work opportunities and little debt to service. You could not do today what my parents achieved between the 60s and the 90s. They went from apartment living with one vehicle and my mom taking the bus in the early 60s, to their own house that my dad largely built himself with 2 cars in the garage, then a chalet he largely built himself in the 80s, to retirement in the early 90s without going into debt at all. I've tried to follow that, though we've had a couple of modest mortgages and car loans because, as I say, what they did is now impossible.

When you start out with little or no debt and an education in an area of demand, you can save and increase your net worth. You can invest. When you make more money from investments than you spend servicing loans, you can save more of your income, and the money snowballs if you don't spend too much. It sounds simple, but I know it's not.

It is expensive to be poor. If I found myself without money or assets, I think I could handle that better than most, and would claw my way back up. But I don't know, and I'm thankful for not being in that position. My kids will start life, maybe not on third base (like some we know), but on second and with a healthy lead. They will not be as prepared or as motivated as some young people who came from less. But others who come from less will not care or will not get the opportunities they need to progress. That's the kind of world we live in. I don't have answers.
 
WhyCzar said:
You reap what you sow?
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The problem is actually that isn't always the case. Some people get more than they sow (honestly, there's a lot of billionaires who have sown nowhere near what their net worth would suggest) and some get less (workers who put in the long hours to make those billionaires rich but get nothing more than their salary out of it and have nothing if they lose the job). Are SpaceX (including X and XAi) and Tesla really Musk doing a trillionaire level of sowing? I'd say his employees do far more sowing than he does. He, and many of the billionaire class, reap what others sow. Not to say that some of those others aren't well off (some of them are very well off), but they are certainly not in the same league wealthwise as the owners of the companies that employ them.
 
WhyCzar said:
How about Mark Carney or Justin Trudeau - are they reaping what they have sown?
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I see each differently in this regard.

Trudeau comes across as a flighty trust fund playboy. No identifiable career path, just kind of doing what caught his fancy. Politics included. Right now, it seems that he is reaping Katie Perry's bed (not sure which of that pair has worse taste in a partner) but not sure what he has sown to get that.

Carney has strong educational credentials, actually done serious work (in both the financial industry and government), and done some fairly significant work in banking and finance during his time with the Bank of Canada and later England. So I have no doubt that Carney has sown and likely reaped well even before becoming PM. I respect him to that point.

Does that qualify him to lead a government, though? Not really. He certainly has more serious credentials as a leader than Trudeau, but his strength has always been economics and finance, not politics. Politics really needs someone more broadly based and capable of engaging and negotiating with people. He seems to be doing well, so far, though the weakness of the opposition (not just the CPC, the NDP and Greens aren't exactly setting the world on fire, either) gets some credit for that. However, I am not a Liberal voter for the most part and Carney's policies so far seem unlikely to change that. My jury is out on him as a PM (I think I voted Green last election).
 
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But if one expresses great power a picture is formed ... that we are not supposed to speak of ... from a humble position ... albeit that position may undermine ...
 
Luce NDs said:
In a pious state that I once resided ... they said philosophical was the worst kind of evil ... and thus such questions must be left behind ... for corporate advantages to take over as observed if without bland faith ... a great supporter of Trump recently related to me that he was hood winked ... can that be explained away ... like beyond here and now, or hear and know? Mute ...

May explain destructive power in belief in powerful people governing alone ... a dream of impossible hero and god creation? Diabolical ... comes in 2's or mores ... blossoming ... can fill fields with sunshine ... with us not knowing anything of the logic thereof as it is beyond us ... as children of great will ...

Can I make this up as you look about at the chaos ... I was rejected, terminated disposed of ... metaphorically, I don exist ... Heis abstract ...
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Public transit', Luce, is unexpected grace's place.

Scripture reminds us that “the earth's the Lord’s, and everything in it!”

Ownership's temporary. Stewardship's eternal.

So while some drive fleets and others ride buses, each of us's still carried by the same sovereign hand.

The deeper question's how we respond to what we’ve been given.

Gratitude's a quiet rebellion against the world’s obsession with status.

Howzit's exactly the question
 
Luce NDs said:
Imagine that ... being beyond the pool ... Late Night on Air? Disembodied ... ---> dissociated, beam edout ... yah said yesua ... in Semitic the A --> stroke approximating an "I" on slant ... if you read some of it there is a different slant or view ... and there it was done gone ...

Like Hellen a Dale was like Allen in the dell ... intoxicated with the bottom of the container? Thick stuff ... Shenandoah ... life is like that because of what is not told to yah straight ... because all are fretting about imperfection ... perfectly out of it ?
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Luce, hear the way your words wander. Like your poetic, N flow. It's standing in the quiet woods, listening to echoes that still stir something deep.

Even when life feels dissociated or “out of it,” there’s a grounding truth
 
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