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  Too Much of Anything Is Not Good.

  Too much of anything is not good.
  This was a comment my grandfather used to make.
  As a child of nine years he was sent away from home to work in a drygoods store.
  He was very poor as a child. As an adult he was bankrupted in the depression of the 1930's, and became an invalid in his late forties.
  My father, his son, became a doctor and lived most of his adult life in upper middle class luxury. As his child, i too lived in luxury. At the age of 15 we moved to a country overseas where we had much less, (materialisticly) but we never felt that we suffered because of this. The opposite. We enjoyed a simple material life, where our needs were met, ( socialized medical care, free education, cheap fresh government subsidised food, very good government subsidized public transportation ) and a very rich social and intellectual life. Were we rich? Were we poor? Was my grandfather rich? was he poor? My grandfather was a canadian citizen and had socialized medical care which kept him and my grandmother from going into enormous debt when he aged.
  SO WHAT AM I DRIVING AT HERE.
  The obvious. It is no pleasure to be very poor and there is no need to be very rich.
  Too Much Poverty is not good.
  Too Much Materialism is not good.
  People need to have their basic needs met. Nobody should be hungry, not get a good education, not have medical care, not have a roof over their heads. Environmentalism is not the point. Taking care of the environment is PRIMARY for all people rich, poor and in between. Taking care of economic equity is also primary, but our society has led us to believe that it is impossible. I have seen relative economic equity in other countries and I know it is possible.
  Too Much of Anything is not Good.
  On Wealthy strive for posted 3 years, 8 months ago 18 Responses