Oh, I wasn't being puritannical and Lear was just another big male baby who failed to see that we must "endure our going forth, even as our coming hither." -- brutal but true...
Joanna
Carrol Cox wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
joanna bujes wrote:
Are there other numbers to tell us how much of this is comsumption to physically survive?
There was a Fed study published in 2001 <http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2001/200121/200121abs.html> that argued that it was mostly driven by the upper quintile of the distribution, flush from stock market gains (either financially or psychologically).
Doug
O, reason not the need: our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady; If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,-- King Lear
