Corn Dolphin the 2nd

Good point the total amount of free time is relative to that yes - that’s why I brought up Frankl because his story is about how searching for meaning still happens in the worst situations.

Even if that eventuality occurs people will still pursue their hobbies the way they pursue everything in man’s search for meaning - at least Viktor Frankl might say so

Nope - they are expensive to make but aren’t much copper anymore

It doesn’t say that ordinary Americans DON’T have the right either. This is a red herring argument from a political liar.

Starship Troopers by Heinlein and the Moon is a Harsh Mistress also by Heinlein are my recent favs

Of course - a little root cause analysis and market understanding is helpful. The problem is that CA is trying to keep housing prices high for tax revenue (suppressing insurance costs does this) AND prevent folks from cutting down too much trees and brush (totally political environmental stuff) - instead they should LISTEN to the market - the insurance companies have been asking to hike prices because a 1 in 100 chance on a $5M property is a $50k policy premium but lately these fires are 1 in 5 so that’s a pricey $1M annual policy premium. The real estate market would shriek and IF LISTENING the state would ask why, and decide they need to reduce the risk of fire in the first place to lower the odds for entire communities - clear underbrush, switch to metal roofs, outdoor fire suppression systems (in the wood roof days they had them), bigger fire breaks, and big upgrades in fire fighting equipment and personnel (or robots) among other things.

100%

Except the train union strikes that shut trains on any day, any time, any where - my military friends in Europe advised me to simply rent a car and drive and they were correct - Europe is still too left to function as a top-tier economy IMO

Me too - after lots of bird meat, fish meat, pork meat - beef is amazeballs