When I was on a vacation in Madagascar we stopped at a tiny village for lunch where they served everyone in the group a typical amount of rice for a single meal. It was about what I might eat in a week if I was eating rice regularly.
I’m recalling something I heard a few months ago on why socialism never really took off in the USA. American’s don’t think of themselves as middle class – they think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
I often think my elderly father believes that remote controls work on faith rather than physics. That, if he really believes in the buttons he presses, that he’ll get whatever he wants to watch. I’ve seen him sit there hitting the same button repeatedly and getting the same error message over and over.
When I was on a vacation in Madagascar we stopped at a tiny village for lunch where they served everyone in the group a typical amount of rice for a single meal. It was about what I might eat in a week if I was eating rice regularly.