05-16-2016, 01:00 PM
(05-16-2016, 12:22 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: As for Xers we've been around long enough to know we're completely screwed and have been since the day we were shoved out of the womb. Such is the life of the clean up crew.
Generation X is damage control and the most we can hope for is to keep the world from exploding. Just like the Lost no one will thank us for it either.
(05-16-2016, 12:22 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Even though the BF and I could afford to buy teh boy a car, we didn't. Mostly on my insistence that his character was more important than him having a car. Needless to say his economic happiness is lower than your average 1999 cohort.
This is possibly the best thing you could do for him. It will force him to start figuring out how to get things on his own which will help him survive in the future. He may be unhappy now but it just might keep him from being really unhappy in the future.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises