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Originally Posted by ErikLS2
I've enjoyed this discussion although I havn't got much to contribute, both sides make some good points. But, isn't this point in time "just another one of those things" that happens in our system that eventually corrects itself and we then see another period of greater prosperity? Since we can't really do much about it, I guess we should just try to educate ourselves on how to survive periods like this.
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One REALLY big issue nobody is talking about is society. I don't think that it will "just work itself out" and be better. I could be totally wrong, and I'm not the chicken little type either!
LOL. It worked itself out in the past because of people. The morality (which IMO is based on spirituallity, or lack thereof in the current population), work ethic, self pride, self dependence of people has TOTALLY changed over time. And it has changed for the worse. People just plain don't care anymore and want everything to be "someone else's" problem and fault. Anyone that has been in business or has managed people for more than a few years knows exactly what I'm talking about. Call it an entitlement society or whatever, but that IMO is why I think the "good times" are behind us. There will be some peaks, but I don't believe that there will be any long term "good times". Just like I said earlier, there are too many hands "out" for the hands putting in. I know that JP and some others may not agree, but I really feel that it is a "spiritual numbness" of the nation that has caused the downward spiral.