Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives
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@Axtremus said in Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives:
@Jolly :
He felt that too much money spoiled people.
@Copper :
Yes, money makes you stupid.
Good arguments for progressive taxation, wealth tax, and estate tax!
The effect of money on the government is even worse.
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@Axtremus said in Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives:
@Jolly :
He felt that too much money spoiled people.
@Copper :
Yes, money makes you stupid.
Good arguments for progressive taxation, wealth tax, and estate tax!
The effect of money on the government is even worse.
@Copper said in Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives:
@Axtremus said in Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives:
@Jolly :
He felt that too much money spoiled people.
@Copper :
Yes, money makes you stupid.
Good arguments for progressive taxation, wealth tax, and estate tax!
The effect of money on the government is even worse.
@Horace :
Yes rich governments are stupid.
Sound arguments for redistribution and deficit spending!
Redistribution and deficit spending will prevent the money from accumulating in government coffers.
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If people with money become too stupid, the problem fixes itself. If Governments with money become too stupid, the problem just compounds.
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@Axtremus said in Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives:
@Jolly :
He felt that too much money spoiled people.
@Copper :
Yes, money makes you stupid.
Good arguments for progressive taxation, wealth tax, and estate tax!
Oh hell no. Good arguments for charitable contribution, not governmental confiscation.
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Yes. It is good for them to not feel immediate affluence as young adults. Shes doing well at budgeting, even if she’s made a few choices i would not have her make.
@Mik said in Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives:
Yes. It is good for them to not feel immediate affluence as young adults. Shes doing well at budgeting, even if she’s made a few choices i would not have her make.
Thanks (and @Jolly too). I can’t imagine how hard it might be to see a mistake and let it play out without getting involved. Within reason of course.
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Texting several times a week is “Highly Involved?! FFS, what is wrong with this world.
And we’re surprised that parents and children that stay close as adults are generally happier and pleased? Again I ask, WTF?’
@LuFins-Dad said in Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives:
Texting several times a week is “Highly Involved?! FFS, what is wrong with this world.
And we’re surprised that parents and children that stay close as adults are generally happier and pleased? Again I ask, WTF?’
Relative to my generation. I didn’t know many people who talked to their parents several times a week when I was in my 20s.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives:
Texting several times a week is “Highly Involved?! FFS, what is wrong with this world.
And we’re surprised that parents and children that stay close as adults are generally happier and pleased? Again I ask, WTF?’
Relative to my generation. I didn’t know many people who talked to their parents several times a week when I was in my 20s.
@jon-nyc said in Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives:
@LuFins-Dad said in Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives:
Texting several times a week is “Highly Involved?! FFS, what is wrong with this world.
And we’re surprised that parents and children that stay close as adults are generally happier and pleased? Again I ask, WTF?’
Relative to my generation. I didn’t know many people who talked to their parents several times a week when I was in my 20s.
And how did that work out?
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What point are you trying to make?
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil
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Data support for what some of you suggest: Cost of communication comes down, so people (including parents and adult children) communicate more.
I was curious if there was a single event that caused the cost of communication to drop suddenly (e.g., deregulation or the introduction of a technology), but it seems the curve has been pretty smooth since the 1960#.
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It is now. Long distance is so 20th century. But when I was running my company out of my house I normally had $200+ monthly phone bills.
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It is now. Long distance is so 20th century. But when I was running my company out of my house I normally had $200+ monthly phone bills.
@Mik said in Parents Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives:
But when I was running my company out of my house I normally had $200+ monthly phone bills.
Add up home Internet and cellphone bills … they probably still add up to $200+ per month for a typical household of 4 today (in 2024 dollars, of course).
