Do you, or will you, allow your children to participate in extracurricular activities? Or is eating every dinner together less of an absolute priority as you claim? Your comment makes it sound like you may have some.
I ask because most of the dinners I missed growing up were due to sports.
American. 28. Grew up going to an inner city school with a bit of a class divide. Thinking about it now, the upper class families were more likely to eat dinner together; but I knew very many classmates that did not.
Neptune's Apprentice is a memoir by Marie DeSantis, who was one the first woman to break into the commercial fishing industry in California in the 1960's.
I'm biased because I work in commercial fishing myself, but this was a very good read.
I really like this essay [0] by cryptographer Moxie, specifically this section about starting a new career:
"...simply observe the older people working there.
They are the future you. Do not think that you will be substantially different. Look carefully at how they spend their time at work and outside of work, because this is also almost certainly how your life will look. It sounds obvious, but it’s amazing how often young people imagine a different projection for themselves.
Look at the real people, and you’ll see the honest future for yourself."
I also think money is really nice, but should not be a means unto itself.
I used to bartend in a wealthy area. Lots of folks on this little town would get tipsy and start talking about how much money they have.
One of my barometers for life is to have things I'm more passionate to talk about than wealth accumulation when I'm tipsy in a bar.
> The price is increasing because people are willing to pay since they recognize how much it will add to their earning potential.
I assumed prices for colleges were increasing because of the availability of cheap debt. I know plenty of people who went to college, taking out large amounts of debt, and not seeming to directly consider their earning potential post-graduation.
I think the problem with heavy bikes isn't only the weight itself. It's the fact that heavy bikes typically have much cheaper components / manufacturing overall.
Consider that adding 5 pounds to stationary components, like the frame, is adding < 5% to the amount of work being done by the rider, depending on the rider's weight.
I took his comments on bike weight as him saying that it isn't really worth worrying about an extra pound or two.
Well, paper money is also used for crime. In fact, illegal uses of paper currency are so common, U.S. authorities commonly seize cash from civilians deemed to be carrying too much of it!
In light of this - I think it's rational to remove paper currency from circulation and to move to a digital system where every transaction is tracked to a real person. This could be as simple as using existing banking structures, or maybe some sort of cryptographically-secure, immutable ledger of some sort, tying every transaction back to a real person. Almost like a centralized, managed "block chain".