Comments on: The myth of the US social mobility. http://trilema.com/2014/the-myth-of-the-us-social-mobility/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Thu, 14 May 2026 21:30:31 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: thelastpsychiatrist.com - China Needs Fewer TVs, Or A Billion Of Them. Adnotated. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2014/the-myth-of-the-us-social-mobility/#comment-146822 thelastpsychiatrist.com - China Needs Fewer TVs, Or A Billion Of Them. Adnotated. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:29:31 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=55665#comment-146822 [...] that is what woman means : she'll like okay whatever it is you've got for her. [↩]There's nothing positive about this "empowerment", leaving aside how it also doesn't exist as hallucinated into words. [...] [...] that is what woman means : she'll like okay whatever it is you've got for her. [↩]There's nothing positive about this "empowerment", leaving aside how it also doesn't exist as hallucinated into words. [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2014/the-myth-of-the-us-social-mobility/#comment-103352 Mircea Popescu Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:13:41 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=55665#comment-103352 Do not speak of rope in the house of the hanged, for I have just been through a week and change of nursing MPEx. And the memory hurts. Do not speak of rope in the house of the hanged, for I have just been through a week and change of nursing MPEx. And the memory hurts.

]]> By: Chett http://trilema.com/2014/the-myth-of-the-us-social-mobility/#comment-103345 Chett Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:31:31 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=55665#comment-103345 I used to refer to my cellphone as 'my leash'. As useful as all this stuff may seem it extracts a price. Things wind up owning you. The big house, the mortgage, the car the cellphone you can't even turn off or your 'friends' will demand to know why you did not answer. Can you take a day and walk in the park and discuss philosophy or must you mow that lawn today? All well and good if you make these things as choices, too often the choice is not seen. I used to refer to my cellphone as 'my leash'.
As useful as all this stuff may seem it extracts a price.
Things wind up owning you. The big house, the mortgage, the car the cellphone you can't even turn off or your 'friends' will demand to know why you did not answer. Can you take a day and walk in the park and discuss philosophy or must you mow that lawn today?

All well and good if you make these things as choices, too often the choice is not seen.

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2014/the-myth-of-the-us-social-mobility/#comment-103344 Mircea Popescu Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:23:01 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=55665#comment-103344 Well, if you're wondering what someone is doing a cellphone may seem like the ideal solution. If you'd rather find out whether your kids got hurt right now rather than next week a cellphone may seem like the ideal solution. In short, all these things seem like ideal solutions if you don't have them, so they must somehow be cosubstantial with being rich. Well, if you're wondering what someone is doing a cellphone may seem like the ideal solution. If you'd rather find out whether your kids got hurt right now rather than next week a cellphone may seem like the ideal solution. In short, all these things seem like ideal solutions if you don't have them, so they must somehow be cosubstantial with being rich.

]]> By: Chett http://trilema.com/2014/the-myth-of-the-us-social-mobility/#comment-103330 Chett Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:41:06 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=55665#comment-103330 We quickly get into this whole 'quality of life' thing. Does a large house and a cellphone improve your well being in anyway? THere was perhaps a time when we could make a case for things like improved medicine and communication had indeed made life 'better'. Today the medicine is questionable (and expensive) and the communications is more propaganda than knowledge. We lack a sensible yardstick to measure these things. Does a big house make you happy? We quickly get into this whole 'quality of life' thing. Does a large house and a cellphone improve your well being in anyway?
THere was perhaps a time when we could make a case for things like improved medicine and communication had indeed made life 'better'.
Today the medicine is questionable (and expensive) and the communications is more propaganda than knowledge.
We lack a sensible yardstick to measure these things.
Does a big house make you happy?

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