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> On May 16, 9:03 am, "John Galt" <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> <retrogro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > On Fri, 16 May 2008 13:04:11 +0530, "John Galt"
>> > <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >><retrogro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >>news:tj8q24punnraomov9r1624m14mvkggb6mt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 07:58:05 +0530, "John Galt"
>> >>> <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >>>>> NO. If people say they are happy then they are happy. It is not
>> >>>>> up
>> >>>>> to
>> >>>>> you to tell them what makes them happy.
>>
>> >>>>You're suggesting that people will be happy with less money to
spend
>> >>>>next
>> >>>>year than they do this year?
>>
>> >>>>Seriously?
>>
>> >>> Do you honestly believe wealth and happiness are related. LOL.
>>
>> >>Wealth? Who said anything about wealth? I'm talking about raising
>> >>families.
>> >>I'm talking about food on the table, enough money for your kid to
play
>> >>Little League, having your kid's birthday party at Chuckie Cheese, or
>> >>maybe
>> >>if you can afford piano lessons for your daughter. At the lower and
>> >>middle
>> >>class layers of society, you're damn right money is tied to
happiness.
>> >>If
>> >>it
>> >>wasn't, money wouldn't be continually cited as one of the primary
>> >>causes
>> >>of
>> >>divorce.
>>
>> > Nonsense.
>>
>> Then feed me more than your personal anecdotes in refutation. I KNOW
poor
>> people can be happy -- I've spent no shortage of time educating their
>> children. That said, the idea you're proposing, that people don't care
>> about
>> giving their children "things" as cited, and they're just as happy if
>> they
>> cannot if they can, is absurd.
>>
>
> Dear God..they let a Randroid teach their children? <shudder>
If you're referring to somebody who follows the philosophy of Ayn Rand, I
do
not.
You know what they say about people who assume.
JG
>
> The only subjects Randroids are suitable for teaching are Sociopathy
> 101.
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