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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (47472)	1/20/2006 12:11:55 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

It is a truism that once people get past penury, more doesn't necessarily make them happy. The unease with which Americans view their wealth and situation is what makes our economy so dynamic. In other words, if we weren't so consistently dissatisfied with our material situation we wouldn't do so much to try to change it for the better. Seems like most here on this thread have an abundance of free time that our agriculturally employed ancestors could only dream about, so in what way is the quality of life going down? A job working in front of a computer is somehow worse than working every day in a rolling mill? I've spent a few days in a rolling mill and wondered to myself how it was that people stood the work, day in and day out. I've been in a lot of older industrial sites, the first thing that strikes me is how much protective gear I have to put on just to walk into them, then I check out the safety count. You know, the counter that shows how many days they've made it without an accident. Would you trade an hour of Freeway traffic, a big faceless corporate owner, cubical in an office building, for working in a coal mine and dying of black lung before 50? Maybe it was better because usually they could walk to work.