But that's what I am saying. Money doesn't make people make better choices.

I would argue that it probably leads to people making worse choices.

This past Sunday my entire family was in the pool playing and laughing and having a great time. No cell phones, no BS. It was just a wonderful day. I remarked to my wife later that I will always remember that day because it was wonderful.

Very well said. I can definitely relate to that feeling.

The weird thing for me is looking at my life and how much I have to be grateful for (which is an almost unimaginable amount of good fortune in the grand scheme of things), and still feeling that way.

BIG BUSINESS...

We will never fix any of these problems, We have given our country over to making money. Everything has added sugar, we have a health problem because we eat so much sugar.. the Govt. subsidies sugar to keep the price low.. Good god the processed (sugar infused) tomato paste on pizza in school counts as a vegetable.

To many gun / bullet manufactures would be screwed if we did anything about guns

H.C. you know its more profitable to research and find how to fix the symptoms for a lifetime vs fixing the problem one and done.

We are screwed and no I don't really think there is any hope. I'll be dead, and my kids will be left with even more of a mess than what we have today.

We live in the greatest most luxurious lifestyle in all of human history and it’s only getting better.

Proof is in your post. Just the fact that have such an abundance of time and money to get on a computer and type your complaints about sugar, guns and modern medicine is more revealing than you apparently understand.

Most of human history has been filled with lives of burden, of war, of slavery, tyranny, disease and starvation.

It used to be that poor people would be malnourished, emaciated, starving. Now the biggest health problem among the poor is obesity.

And you think the world is ending because we have drugs that can manage chronic heart disease, diabetes and cancer?

Well, if it isn’t Mr. Sunshine! What happened to the dude who was just complaining in another thread about all the advancing filth, squalor, and urban decay our cities are descending into?