The sky is falling, are you willing to give up your stuff and make do with less
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/opinion/08friedman.html
The consumer-driven growth model is broken and we have to move to a more happiness-driven growth model, based on people working less and owning less. “How many people,” Gilding asks, “lie on their death bed and say, ‘I wish I had worked harder or built more shareholder value,’ and how many say, ‘I wish I had gone to more ballgames, read more books to my kids, taken more walks?’ To do that, you need a growth model based on giving people more time to enjoy life, but with less stuff.”
Are you willing to give up your iPad2 and/or the possibility of ever owning an iPad3?
Yay, I get 2 sleep in!
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Hell no!
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Again, the problem here is over population and the majority of the population is poor. So...., we can take care of the problem stated by Friedman (and the overpopulation problem) by getting rid of the poor people. It's an idea whose time has come. I mean, the world would be a much better place if we were to get rid of third world countries because then there would only be first and second world countries on this planet. In the words of John Lennon, "imagine all the people, living" in first and second world countries. Alternatively, "imagine none of the people, living" in third world countries. You could say I'm a dreamer. But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one. ;) Side: Hell no!
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