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Code: 331392: Is there where I put he code I was sent by Useful Idiots?

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Rarely if ever miss mourning on Mondays. Huzzahs Useful Idiots. Sett aside the veracity of people in the past having great respect for their equivalent of today's billionaire oligarchs, according to the interview with the psycho-therapist. A big difference today is the world's population has tripled or more to 8.3 billion. Resulting in the spectre of the immeasurable appetites of that hypothetical 8 billion, and the waste and pollution they create, encountering the resource limitations of a finite world. The interviewed member of the Best and the Brightest says nothing about wealth disparities even more severe than in the time of the Robber Barons. We're already seeing the ghost of climate collapse. But la di dah. Let's consume more. Let's get in the auto and take a ride to Yellowstone or some other site of the great outdoors. Or jam the cities' highways with traffic jams on our way to and from work, across the globe constantly. This may be skewed, but it's the paraphrase I remember of Thoreau's view of money in Walden. The last sentence I'm sure appears verbatim: The problem of money is twofold. First is in its acquiring, which many never do. Once someone does acquire a lot of money an even more intractable problem arises: how to spend it. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue. And in one of his Tropics books Henry Miller writes that the only hope is a moneyless society.