Reply #150: agreed - those are all good ideas [View All]

[Matariki]

Do you live in Seattle? The public transportation sucks here, definitely. There are some individual routes that are good, but they don't connect well to each other or run frequently enough. And driving isn't a whole lot better. I worked at Microsoft and sometimes my commute home would take 2 hours - which is why I don't work there anymore. I would just sit in my car and cry. Wouldn't feel like doing much more than cracking open a beer when I got home. And the cost of housing, well let's not go there. I get irked over that. I wish people wouldn't look at real-estate as 'an investment'. But I wish a lot of things. The adage is to pick one issue you care about and work on it, right?

It *is* very insensitive using the word 'lazy' on an individual level - but in the broad, cultural sense I'd say that we have created a society that demands convenience - a sort of cultural laziness. From the food we eat to way we get our information. We've gone about it ass-backwards. Instead of the convenience of, say, efficient public transportation and shorter work weeks, we've opted instead for drive-through junk food and fox news.