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Peter Burnett's avatar

Three jobs and still hard to get by? Is that the kind of living-to-work treadmill you're talking of, Ned McDoodle?

And fearing to fall ill lest you lose your job...

The kind of compulsive and compulsory workaholism that makes for built-in inefficiencies, an unhappy workforce, an unhappy society. Unhappy, but too busy trying to keep afloat to become a threat to those who count...

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Ned McDoodle's avatar

I can not seem to scroll back to the thread from which this exchange is the derivative.

EDIT: Peter, this comment was directed toward you and Lady on the credit card debt. People may be out of money and using credit cards out of desperation rather than instant gratification.

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Peter Burnett's avatar

Fair enough.

We'd not be seeing the hijacked Republican Party turned into a barely disguised Nazi-type tool and used with some success to subvert the Republic if a substantial number of people had not been reduced to desperation by a few decades of the same subversives' activities.

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