You can't measure somebody's appreciation of something by inconveniencing them.
http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/bell.aspWeingarten set up the event "as an experiment in context, perception and priorities — as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?"
If people didn't have hardship in life. people would be doing more of what they enjoy, rather than being in a continual rat race to get ahead of the next person. Of course, it is basic human instinct to strive in whatever effort they endeavor. However when presented with alot more options, I'm sure the world would be a much more different place...
Let me use this analogy. You're playing Single player Left 4 dead. No human competitors. Most of your team is going to cooperate to get past the obstacles. a small minority might run around and try to troll the server. then they would leave because there is no real purpose to it. why? you ask? people are working in a cooperative environment instead of a competitive one. you won't hear a whole lot of smack talking or horseplay as much as you would come across it on another competetive mode. when competition is not abundant, people have more choices available.
Top 1% control more wealth than 99%
Weingarten set up the event "as an experiment in context, perception and priorities — as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?"
Quote from: peeweeTop 1% control more wealth than 99%Don't you have a city park to squat in? nana
Most people wouldn't be working 60 hours if they didn't have to. Of course alot of the populace has bought into the jersey shore mentality. consumerism. something as persons with meager means, would appreciate 1% of. No doubt society has sunk into a more dog eat dog society. "more for me less for you mentality".
The problem is that people AREN'T willing to work 60 hour weeks. When I'm done with school, the position I'll have will be 84 hour weeks, and HELL YEAH to milking that shit for all it's worth in tough times. THAT is the American way. It's a dog-eat-dog society not because the big dogs are getting bigger, it's because the little dogs are getting weaker. The "new" American way is if you can't hack it, just file for unemployment / collect food stamps.....if your business can't hack it, then file for chapter 11. Plan B is becoming Plan A, by CHOICE, and it's hindering our society big time. People are comfortable/complacent in their world on their CPU, ipod, ipad, smartphone, etc. that they have no desire to "outdo people in their endeavors"(a basic human instinct you mentioned), because it's outside their reality which they're highly content with.
when competition is not abundant, people have more choices available.
Maybe jaqueero didn't get the memo.http://tastyspleen.net/quake/forums/index.php?topic=18266.0
I have to call BS on this. You can't measure somebody's appreciation of something by inconveniencing them.
Inconvenience
VaeVictis:i find it funny that you even consider grammar a sign of intelligence, that itself is a very uneducated claim