How long do you think?

[bigpaul]

unfortunately common sense seems to have been bred out of a large part of the population, and so they just see all the new stuff that they can buy. if the world economy were to collapse within the next few years, it could be seen as a blessing in disguise, early reorganisation of the way we do things would give us a new start. but it would have to be on a larger or more prolonged scale, as a short term event would only be a hiccup and things would carry on afterwards in the same way, just prolonging the agony until the inevitable happens.