Website owner: James Miller
The most basic, most important, underlying fact of life for most people everywhere (no matter what country or part of the world they live in): the need to make a living, the need for money, the necessity of somehow acquiring the essentials of food, shelter and clothing. The necessity of making a living, of somehow acquiring the essentials of life, shapes and defines life for most people the world over. It determines where they live, the conditions under which they live, and a great many other details of their lives. It often determines whether they live in the country or city (people go where the jobs are). Where they live determines the environment in which their children grow up. The particular job that they find for supporting themselves determines how they spend a large portion of their time each day (a daily routine), how well their individual talents, abilities and strengths are utilized in this life, the degree of personal fulfillment they get from life, etc. The need to eat, to have income, makes people do many things that they may not like to do. It makes people spend hours creeping to and from work in slow-moving rush hour traffic; it makes thieves of some people, prostitutes of others (in more than one sense of the word). It causes people to cheat, harm, hurt, and even kill others. It does all kinds of things to people. Sept 1991
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