{"id":7450,"date":"2015-04-21T05:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T10:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7450"},"modified":"2015-04-21T05:50:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T10:50:46","slug":"money-for-nothin-and-your-chicks-for-free-and-your-houses-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7450","title":{"rendered":"Money for Nothin\u2019 and your Chicks for Free \u2013 and your Houses too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"art-postheader\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Money for Nothin\u2019 and your Chicks for Free \u2013 and your Houses too!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acting-man.com\/?p=36956\" rel=\"bookmark\">Money for Nothin\u2019 and your Chicks for Free \u2013 and your Houses too!<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Nothing Against the Old<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We would like to preface today\u2019s\u00a0<em>Diary<\/em>\u00a0with a clarification: We don\u2019t have anything against old people. We don\u2019t have anything against high GDP growth rates either. But the two don\u2019t go together.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this opinion comes from looking in the mirror: New products? New technology? New businesses? The older we get the less interest we have. When we learn a \u201cnew\u201d song on the guitar, for example, it is likely to be one written half a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>When we sit down to watch a movie, we\u2019re as likely to pick out something from Leslie Nielsen\u2019s\u00a0<em>Naked Gun<\/em>\u00a0series as a new Hollywood release. There are different stages in life\u2026 with different interests. One dear reader explains it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In India there is a concept of Vrana ashram. In it, a person\u2019s life is divided in four parts. From birth until 25, it is Brahmacharya \u2013 a person should gain knowledge by reading scriptures. From 25 to 50, it is Grihastha ashram \u2013 to live married life. From 50 to 75, it Vanaprastha \u2013 away from society in the forest seeking god. From 75 to 100, it is Sannays \u2013 complete renouncing of the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We guess we are in the Vanaprastha stage. Maybe that\u2019s what we\u2019re really doing out on this remote ranch high in the Argentine Andes: seeking god.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Keeping the Money Spinning<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Is there anything wrong with that? Not that we know of. But it is not the way to boost GDP.\u00b4One reader pointed out that the problem is not too many old people. It\u2019s too few young people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money for Nothin\u2019 and your Chicks for Free \u2013 and your Houses too! Nothing Against the Old We would like to preface today\u2019s\u00a0Diary\u00a0with a clarification: We don\u2019t have anything against old people. We don\u2019t have anything against high GDP growth rates either. But the two don\u2019t go together. Some of this opinion comes from looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4861,161,240,353,1583,536,1615],"class_list":["post-7450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-age","tag-consumerism","tag-economic-growth","tag-gdp","tag-housing","tag-money","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7451,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions\/7451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}