Well I'll tell you when how much becomes too much.
When you are born into this world without you ever having been asked your consent or at least your opinion on the matter.
Then when you are alive and finally accept it as a fact, you realize that one day you will have to die and again whether you want it or not is not taken into consideration. You must die, period !
That much is too much.
When you realize that this world has a lot of riches to offer, a lot of happiness, a lot of pleasure but then you learn that you must pay for it all, to the last cent. But of course you learn that the system is such as to keep you just under the line of actual freedom and that most stuff is simply beyond your means as of course you only make enough money for the basics and strict minimum (Which is actually more than a lot have in poor countries)
So man can go to space but don't ever think about you going there, man can fly but apart from commercial flights whose purpose is to take you somewhere, not to freely let you fly up or down, faster or slower, you may not fly in some personal machine that you'd own because it simply is beyond your monetary means, man can drive powerful fancy cars but again don't actually hope to own one as they are totally out of price, I would dare say, on purpose so that only an elite few may own them but not you, never you !
etc ...
That much is again too much.
When you hear they found a cure for AIDS, cancer, leukemia and so on but such treatments are so totally beyond your monetary means that you wonder why bother finding those cures ? Obviously not for the betterment of mankind, only for the benefit of an elite few who again can afford it. And to think that some call those people who find such cures, heroes
That much is definitely too much.
When you hear how everything is taxed.
The money you make, the money you spend, the money you save, the money you inherit, the money you bequeath. And I won't talk about extra hours at work to try and improve your life by getting a little extra because that money is actually taxed at 60, 70 and even 80% making it pointless to try and survive by sacrificing your free time at work.
That much is so very totally too much.
And finally, in order to avoid too much digressing in this post.
When you pay too much for a book, a reading device. But also food, goods and services of course.
But the thing here is, pretty much any price now is too much as I don't see anything that is for sale in our good and benevolent societies, being sold for what it's really worth.
And that is also too much.
But finally what I consider the champion in all categories of too much is the fact that people seem to accept this without question as if it were a normal part of a free society whose effort is the well being of its denizens and not of its corporations.
All in all, it appears, most people are just
Another Brick in the Wall.
And that, brothers and sisters,
IS TOO MUCH !
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Originally Posted by jhempel24
How much is too much
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