Of course life is suffering. Had you expected anything else? Blessings be upon you. May you avoid all sufferings that come your way.

Wealth building and financial stability is, though, pretty much a fantasy today. Financial and social capital is worth investing in. Forget Wall Street…a lot of croks.

Build in the people

Bill

For poverty, I was remained of a huge interview study with poor people all over the world by the World Bank (Can anyone hear us). Poverty is so much more than absence of money. If you are poor, you might have worse health, less power, facing more violence from gangs and the police. So even if middle class Westerners now loose financial wealth and stability – how can we build social capital – trust in our neighbourhoods, peaceful realtions, health independent from doctors and pharmacompanies, empowerment as communities and in our skills and ability to take uncertainty and change.

Sharon, you are part of that wealth building. To realize too what really is worth something. I pray this wake up will be as smooth as it can.

Malin, Winlaw, BC, Canada

The interesting thing has been the response of online news readers who have commented on the article reporting the situation. Quite a few have taken the stance that the homeowners are deadbeats – “with seven children in the house, why aren’t the adults working to support them?” Lots of comments of about a perception that people who get their utilities turned off are “welfare scum” or people trying to avoid their obligations. There is a deep certainty that people who cannot pay their bills are lazy. The reality is that the unemployment rate in our county is above 13% and rising. I wonder how many of the commenters are going to be quite so holier-than-thou in a year or two.

“Ordinary human unhappiness DID MEAN, of course, that one was unhappy every second, merely that …”

You meant DID NOT MEAN, right? (please tell me you did!!

(if it was a typo you can delete this comment when corrected).