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Re:The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than dou... by hux_ on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @01:41PM (#15863660)
Savings!?!...pfft this is America. If you are not in debt how can you buy a house, send your kids to college, take care of the families medical expenses and buy everyone new iPhones for Christmas? Savings he says! What madness!
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Re:The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than dou... by Zaak on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @04:22PM (#15865142)
"Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly."

Paul Graham, The Acceleration of Addictiveness

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