Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And the fastest growing gap between the rich and poor!! Douglas (in Germany) On 19.05.2012 22:20, Richard Man wrote: > Heee hee, I plead the Fifth. > > Could be the German too, they are one of the few European countries with > growing GDP! :-) > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Robert Meier<robertmeier at usjet.net> > wrote: > >> Did you mean a 'tectonic shift'? >> >> On May 19, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Richard Man wrote: >> >>> As someone who grew up in the government projects in Hong Kong, then >> "made >>> it" and bought a house in Palo Alto, but now hit with the financial >>> fallout, plus having one kid in college and one kid entering college in a >>> year or so, I can fully understand Philip and Chris' plight. Did I work >> my >>> arse off to get to where I was? Yes. Do I see the same problems that they >>> allude to? Yes. >>> >>> What I see is a system increasingly deck against the Little Guys, but my >>> rant is only suitable for the Forum. Yes, the opportunities are still out >>> there - for my children's sake, I sure hope that it is true. But one >> should >>> not think that the situation is the same as even 5 years ago. Times have >>> changed. A nothing 3 bedroom house in Vancouver can fetch over 1.3 >> million >>> dollars, mostly because of all the rich money from China. How would you >>> like to be growing up in Vancouver and then knowing that there is no way >>> you can stay there? Same thing is happening in the Silicon Valley (and >> have >>> been happening since I moved here ~20 years ago). We are seeing a >> Teutonic >>> shift, just that it's not affecting people in "other countries," but >> right >>> here in USA, and not limited to a particular race or geographic regions. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> // richard<http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >