Liquid Asset Poor Paycheck-To-Paycheck

People spend what they earn and so if they are broke they can't afford much. As in the saying "Make nothing, have noting." Or "Small towns are small for a reason." Why is that? Why is there no Red Lobster in your small town? It cost too much? Well low pay dictates what the town has, issues of no social mobility too much socially illiterate and all in all no way to do better as the banks underwriter says "Sorry your income is too low!" Kept low by income!

Low pay is, low! Back in the 90's I was planning to move to St. Louis but the place had no social mobility poverty divide when looking at East St. Louis! If they are stuck so would I so I didn't go there. Also on the other hand other places have a low cost of living but so does a trailer park but doesn't mean you would want to live there! You get what you pay for! And if the pay is low all is low!

There is a need to raise the minimum wage as it's just stupid to have children waged adults! If the adult makes the children wages then what are the children? There is a need to get these people brought up to get the people educated so they can face the future. They are living paycheck to paycheck with no liquid assets poor as anything keeping it all slow and low! It's time to grow, raise the pay!

~~~~~Nearly Half Of America Lives Paycheck-To-Paycheck

While stocks are still near record highs and the inventory-stuffed picture of economic growth for the US ticks up to its fastest pace in 2 years, Time reports that a study (below) by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) shows nearly half of Americans are living in a state of “persistent economic insecurity,” that makes it "difficult to look beyond immediate needs and plan for a more secure future." In other words, too many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck... but their findings get worse. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-01/nearly-half-america-lives-paycheck-paycheck

~~~~~Asset poverty

Asset poverty is an economic and social condition that is more persistent and prevalent than income poverty. It is a household’s inability to access wealth resources that are sufficient to provide for basic needs for a period of three months. Basic needs refer to the minimum standards for consumption and acceptable needs. Wealth resources consist of home ownership, other real estate (second home, rented properties, etc.), net value of farm and business assets, stocks, checking and savings accounts, and other savings (money in savings bonds, life insurance policy cash values, etc.). Wealth is measured in three forms: net worth, net worth minus home equity, and liquid assets. Net worth consists of all the aspects mentioned above. Net worth minus home equity is the same except it does not include home ownership in asset calculations. Liquid assets are resources that are readily available such as cash, checking and savings accounts, stocks, and other sources of savings. There are two types of assets: tangible and intangible. Tangible assets most closely resemble liquid assets in that they include stocks, bonds, property, natural resources, and hard assets not in the form of real estate. Intangible assets are simply the access to credit, social capital, cultural capital, political capital, and human capital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_poverty

~~~~~How Many Americans Are Liquid Asset Poor?

“As millions of Americans today struggle to save for emergencies, investing in their futures is increasingly out of reach,” explains the report. “Flagging homeownership rates, declining retirement savings, and increasing college debt all contribute to the worst wealth inequality in generations. Without improved policies at all levels of government that help families earn more, save more, and build assets, the yawning income and wealth inequality gap in the United States will widen rather than narrow. Inaction consigns millions to persistent financial insecurity, dimming their economic future and the future of the nation as a whole.”

https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/how-many-americans-are-liquid-asset-poor.html

~~~~~The problem with illiteracy and how it affects all of us

Employers are less likely to hire individuals who haven’t finished high school, thus leading to longer periods of unemployment. High rates of unemployment and the resulting loss of tax revenue end up costing the United States upwards of $225 billion per year.

https://readingpartners.org/blog/problem-illiteracy-affects-us

~~~~~50 million American households can’t even afford basic living expenses
Some 50.8 million households or 43% of households can’t afford a basic monthly budget for housing, food, transportation, child care, health care and a monthly smartphone bill, according to an analysis of U.S. government data released this month by the United Way Alice Project, a nonprofit based in Cedar Knolls, N.J. that aims to highlight the number of people who live in poverty.

The project uses standardized measurements to calculate the “bare bones” household budget in each county in each state. It maintains that the federal poverty level — currently $25,100 for a family of four — doesn’t accurately illustrate the number of people living in poverty because it doesn’t take into account the dramatically different costs of living across the U.S.

“For too long, the magnitude of financial instability in this country has been understated and obscured by misleading averages and outdated poverty calculations,” said John Franklin, chief executive of the United Way Alice Project. “It is morally unacceptable and economically unsustainable for our country to have so many hardworking families living paycheck to paycheck.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/50-million-american-households-cant-afford-basic-living-expenses-2018-05-18

Climate change effecting our air

Climate change is effecting the air effecting our health worse long term. There is more pollen in the air than ever before from the higher temps also limited effects on plants from more Carbon Dioxide.

The issue is the effects on us in the higher effects of more pollen and carbon dioxide levels in the air even more if you have asthma! Also higher carbon dioxide in the air long term effects the heart. More possible heart attacks so with the stress on us from our environment stay calm and we aware things are not normal so take care of your needs! Psychological stress from everything drags us all down. A point to note how we all react to the changes going on!

~~~~~After years of progress, the number of Americans breathing polluted air is rising, report says. More Americans are breathing air that will make them sick, according to the American Lung Association's annual State of the Air report.

The country had been making progress in cleaning up air pollution, but during the Trump administration, it has been backsliding, the report says. Deregulation and climate change are largely to blame.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/24/health/polluted-air-counties-lung-association/index.html

~~~~~Climate change is making allergy season worse

You're sneezing your head off, and your eyes sting. The air around you is yellow -- along with your house, your car, your pets. Yes, of course, you already know that allergy season has arrived. Now for more bad news: Climate change makes it much worse.

Nearly 20 million Americans sneeze and sniffle due to pollen and dust, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many more of us will be BFFs with our tissues in the future.

The number of allergy sufferers has grown, research shows. One in 10 Americans struggled with hay fever in 1970, and 3 in 10 did by 2000. Asthma, which can be made worse by exposure to pollen, has become more common too, with higher rates among kids, low-income households and African Americans.

Experts think climate change shares some of the blame for this. Warmer temperatures increase the level of airborne pollen because, scientists say, the growing season has, well, grown

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/12/health/climate-change-allergies/index.html

~~~~~Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report. You must go back 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels as high as they are today, Earth scientists report. "The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today and sustained at those levels, global temperatures were five to 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than they are today," said Aradhna Tripati, UCLA assistant professor of Earth and Space Sciences and lead author.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091008152242.htm

~~~~~Ask the Experts: Does Rising CO2 Benefit Plants?

There is a kernel of truth in this argument, experts say, based on what scientists call the CO2 fertilization effect. “CO2 is essential for photosynthesis,” says Richard Norby, a corporate research fellow in the Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. “If you isolate a leaf [in a laboratory] and you increase the level of CO2, photosynthesis will increase. That’s well established.” But Norby notes the results scientists produce in labs are generally not what happens in the vastly more complex world outside; many other factors are involved in plant growth in untended forests, fields and other ecosystems. For example, “nitrogen is often in short enough supply that it’s the primary controller of how much biomass is produced” in an ecosystem, he says. “If nitrogen is limited, the benefit of the CO2 increase is limited…. You can’t just look at CO2, because the overall context really matters.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ask-the-experts-does-rising-co2-benefit-plants1

~~~~~The Impact of Global Warming on Human Fatality Rates

Mark Jacobson, showing a direct link between rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere and increased human mortality. 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-and-health

~~~~~The effects of psychological stress upon performance.
Stress is motivational in character and cannot be described in terms of stimulus or response operations alone. Studies have been concerned with verbal and perceptual-motor performance, components of behavior, personality correlates as affected by stress, qualitative observation of stress-performance, and such performance as a predictor.
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1953-02507-001

Ancient Pagan Origins of Easter

The common point of Easter is a rebirth the beginning of spring a new life again.
Pagan or Christianity much the same a time for a resurrection in your life.

~~~~~The Ancient Pagan Origins of Easter
Most historians, including Biblical scholars, agree that Easter was originally a pagan festival. According to the New Unger’s Bible Dictionary: “The word Easter is of Saxon origin, Eastra, the goddess of spring, in whose honour sacrifices were offered about Passover time each year. By the eighth century Anglo–Saxons had adopted the name to designate the celebration of Christ’s resurrection.” However, even among those who maintain that Easter has pagan roots, there is some disagreement over which pagan tradition the festival emerged from. Here we will explore some of those perspectives...
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/ancient-pagan-origins-easter-001571

VA doctors prescribing unnecessary antibiotics - Many Doctors in training, not surprised!

There has been issues with the VA for a long time. Also health care in small towns. If you didn't know, in the VA and small towns there are many Doctors in training! Just because you have a education doesn't make you smart. Like a license for a car having one does not mean you know how to drive. Your education starts after college. And so comes the issues of doctors in training. Being a system in training you will have the bad here and there! 

Always remember you are responsible about your own health care as you only have one or many lives. Be aware of your needs! Going to a Doctor is better than nothing but be a part of your own health care!

~~~~~VA doctors prescribing unnecessary antibiotics, study finds
Antibiotic overuse is a major problem throughout the world. Now a new study finds four in 10 outpatients were inappropriately prescribed antibiotics at a major U.S. Veterans Affairs health system.

That rate is higher than in previous studies on outpatient antibiotic use. Improper use of the drugs is associated with increased illness, cost and the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

"Our study targeted the most commonly overused antibiotics and the associated conditions in order to enable an approach focused on these factors in the outpatient setting," said study author Alexis White.

Over-prescription of antibiotics was most common in patients with urinary tract infections, bronchitis, skin infections and sinusitis, according to the analysis of data from researchers with the Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System in Buffalo.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/04/27/VA-doctors-prescribing-unnecessary-antibiotics-study-finds/6691556375856/?ts_=17

~~~~~Training doctors for small-town Texas
“In some parts of West Texas, there may be only one physician, and he’s 80 miles away,” said Ann Smith, academic program coordinator. “This program is a way to address the physician shortage by training doctors who will return to West Texas to practice medicine.”
https://thedo.osteopathic.org/2016/07/training-doctors-for-small-town-texas

Oklahoma needing to expand health coverage - doing without too long!

There are a lot of issues with health care in Oklahoma. Many have insurance but can't afford to use it because they run down to $5 left in the bank before payday. Un-medicated heart conditions, can't afford the meds. (A issue I  hear about in my town!) This is just a stupid way of life. And brings up the question why are we not getting brought up yet! Also why are there so many protest going on lately? Need to ask why so you would know. Like it's just for no reason just to be fancy like. There is a need to get brought up. Just because stupid people like to suffer doesn't mean you have to also. Why disable yourself like they do! Well you have to have a evolution sometime you can't live like your parents from the 1930's all the time. That was a bad time you can do better!

Oklahoma does need to expand health coverage to end the stupidity because it hurts others that want to live normal!

~~~~~Proponents rally, urges lawmakers to expand health coverage now

The time is now to expand health coverage to thousands of uninsured low-income Oklahomans, members of the Coalition to Expand Coverage stressed Wednesday during a rally at the state Capitol.

"This is the year. We need it now," said Angela Monson, a rally organizer and former state senator. "We can't afford to wait."

Oklahoma is one of 14 states that has refused federal Medicaid expansion dollars that could provide health coverage for an estimated 100,000 people who currently are uninsured.

Speakers at the Rally for Coverage said it's time to take the money and use it to provide coverage for those people by enrolling them in Medicaid or another state program.

The approximately 250 people in attendance were urged to tell lawmakers to vote for health coverage expansion.

"Speak boldly. They work for you," Monson said.

Debbie Hill was among a group of 23 people who came to the rally from Norman.

"I was a teacher for 30 years, and I saw the effect the lack of health care had directly on my students," Hill said. She said it was common for her high schoolers to miss class or to be sleepy in class after a late-night trip to the emergency room because of a health emergency.

Oklahoma's child uninsured rate is among the highest in the nation, said the Rev. Joseph Alsay of St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church, calling it "a sin and a shame."

Alsay said one-quarter of adults with diabetes ration their insulin or skip doses to save money, risking serious consequences like amputation and blindness.

David Blatt with the Oklahoma Policy Institute said one in six adults in Oklahoma has no coverage.

"Over the past seven years Oklahoma has been among a dwindling number of states that refuse to bring tax dollars home and expand coverage," Blatt said. Studies show expansion in other states has drastically reduced uninsured rates, improved families' financial stability and been good for the economy, he said.

"Not one state has gone back on its decision to expand coverage," Blatt said.

"Oklahoma has waited far too long to get on board with expansion, but better late than never," he said "The time to expand is now."

Patti Davis, president of the Oklahoma Hospital Association, said hospitals serve as the safety net for people who are uninsured.

"The hospital safety net is eroding, and nowhere more than in rural Oklahoma where residents are older, poorer and sicker," Davis said.

"It's not too late for the Legislature and governor to take action this session," she said.

Rep. Marcus McEntire, R-Duncan, said lawmakers have been "working hard" the past year and a half to reach an agreement on health coverage expansion. The issue is difficult for many Republicans whose constituents are opposed to accepting the federal expansion dollars.

"We are working, and we are working hard," McEntire said. "We can't do nothing."

McEntire said there is a chance a bill could be ready for a vote this session or in a special session if needed.

(Story continued below...)

Gov. Kevin Stitt said Tuesday he would not sign legislation to expand Medicaid, which currently serves 800,000 Oklahomans.

"I want to get dollars into our health care system, but I think there are better ways to do it," Stitt said. "We've got to think two or three years down the road and how we're going to pay for it."

A petition was filed Friday seeking to put the question of Medicaid expansion to Oklahoma voters in the 2020 general election. Proponents will have to collect nearly 178,000 voter signatures for the question to appear on the ballot.

https://newsok.com/article/5629658/proponents-rally-urges-lawmakers-to-expand-health-coverage-now

Generation X and Millennials issues - sun dried tomatoes!

There is a big issue from the income divide pointing as a big loss of foundation many are having a hard time. Sort of a social problem not a psychological one like not fixing the problem and medicating the patient to handle the problem with the issue still there. That is the state we all live in these days.

In a world of more educated workers needed dealing with robots in the workplaces, the knowledge economy with low wages and a big income divide shows up in many fails. Like running in a circle chasing your tail the Gig Economy with broke people around you! It's not sustainable! The question comes up how much tomato juice can you get out of a sun dried tomato? Those 1%ers took the juice! 

So, Just another minimum wage retiree common now. Not being able to get into the middle class. Or lowering the middle class to if you walk without a car or have a unsafe one! It's a bad time for everyone with depression, drugs and a bunch of stupid out there. Well look around you be more self aware and notice the lack of safety nets for people as they go down the main road in a wheel chair. Sad!

The income divide is causing the social problems people have today! There is just not enough money for the people out there today so they just act accordingly and so is like quicksand for others!

~~~~~Many Gen Xers desolate as they reach middle age, study says
Despair runs rampant through Generation X as these Americans struggle through middle age, a new study reports.

So-called indicators of despair -- depression, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse -- are rising among those in their late 30s and early 40s, and it's occurring across-the-board, researchers say.

On the other hand, Generation X might be reflecting overall societal trends that have led Americans to feel hopeless and helpless.

These include the erosion of the middle class, declines in traditional family structures and social cohesion, and the highly acidic level of national politics, Gaydosh said.

Katz points to societal trends as a more likely cause.

"My list includes divisive politics, the elevation of racism and xenophobia, the ever-widening disparities our culture propagates, and of course the truly ominous implications of climate change hanging over all of our hopes for the future," Katz said.

Gaydosh said that small-scale efforts to combat the symptoms of despair, such as alcohol treatment programs, may not be enough.

"From what I've learned, it seems when you address one symptom, these underlying causes manifest themselves in other ways," Gaydosh said. "Addressing the underlying structural causes is really the only way to improve the health of all Americans. Otherwise, it's like a game of whack-a-mole."
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2019/04/23/Many-Gen-Xers-desolate-as-they-reach-middle-age-study-says/1081556022199/?ts_=16

~~~~~Stop Pretending You Don't Know Why Millennials Are Mad About Student Debt
Before we get to work dispensing these arguments, it’s important to acknowledge that they are, on some level, understandable. A lot of Americans, especially those who got their bachelor’s degree before the early 2000s, find it baffling that younger generations can’t work their way through college. If the costs are so immense and the debt is so burdensome, why can’t young people simply choose not to attend college at all? 

The answer is that for young Americans, skipping college or working your way through it are both much less viable options than they used to be. 

Over the last 20 years, getting a bachelor’s degree has become more essential than ever. College-educated workers earn more than twice as much as high school graduates. Last year, nine out of 10 new jobs went to workers with university diplomas. From unemployment to job security to workplace benefits, the gap between college-educated and non-college-educated workers is wide and growing. 

Over the last 20 years, getting a bachelor’s degree has become more essential than ever. College-educated workers earn more than twice as much as high school graduates. Last year, nine out of 10 new jobs went to workers with university diplomas. From unemployment to job security to workplace benefits, the gap between college-educated and non-college-educated workers is wide and growing. 

On Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren proposed a plan to cancel current student debt and make public college free. But as college has become more necessary, it has also become more expensive. Since 1989, the average cost of attending a four-year university has risen almost eight times faster than wages. Thirty years ago, when a college degree cost less than $10,000 per year (yes, that’s adjusted for inflation), students could work 10 or 15 hours a week and make a meaningful dent in their fees. These days, a part-time job at the federal minimum wage barely covers the price of textbooks.

Taken together, these trends leave many young Americans feeling trapped. If they don’t go to college, they have little chance of getting a steady, well-paying job. If they do go to college they’ll be on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars in student loans.  

This calculation hurts low-income and minority students the most. Nearly 90 percent of African-American students take out loans to attend public universities, compared to around 60 percent of white students. After college is over, minority students earn less and are more likely to default on their loans. 

While it may be a foreign concept to the Americans who didn’t go through it themselves, the high cost of college profoundly shapes the lives of young workers. Student loans are the only form of debt that can’t be vacated in bankruptcy. They impose hundreds (sometimes thousands) of dollars in monthly fees on young workers at the most vulnerable stage of their careers. College grads enter and leave professions on the basis of whether they will be eligible for loan forgiveness (and are understandably livid when it doesn’t come through).

But the biggest impact of student loans may be on those who decide not to apply for them at all. In contrast to the over-educated stereotype, most young people did not go to college. In a survey last year, 70 percent of millennials said finances played a role in their decision about whether and where to attend university. In the middle of an economic recovery that so far has delivered most of its benefits to the college-educated, erecting a financial wall around higher education could leave millions of Americans behind.  

So however you feel about the specifics of Warren’s plan, it’s important to acknowledge the reality that young people face. There’s little evidence to suggest that millennials differ from previous generations in moral values or work ethic. There is abundant evidence, however, that they inherited vastly different economic and educational conditions than their parents. 
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stop-feigning-ignorance-about-why-millennials-are-mad-about-student-debt_n_5cbf270be4b0f7a84a755c47

~~~~~The Truth About the Gig Economy
Last week two influential labor economists revised down their much-cited estimate of the size of the alternative workforce, meaning workers in temporary, on-call, contract, or freelance positions. Lawrence Katz of Harvard and Alan Krueger of Princeton had initially found that this workforce grew five percentage points in the decade up to 2015, accounting for nearly all job creation over that time period. Now they think it is more like one or two points. Their correction comes shortly after a major government survey—one that surprised a lot of labor and workforce experts—found that 3.8 percent of workers held “contingent” jobs as of 2017, roughly the same share as in 2005.

There’s another reason why a false narrative might have hold: Gig work is vastly more prevalent in the big coastal cities where many investors and journalists live, leading to a kind of media myopia about the scale of the phenomenon. And gig work seemed like the future. It suddenly appeared during the brutal years following the financial crisis, at the same time that declining unionization rates, widening inequality, and the spiraling cost-of-living crisis, among other trends, were battering working families. Given widespread fears about the ways that automation and technology might further shock the American workplace, it just stood to reason that in the coming dystopia, everyone would have to settle for “jobs” with little security, low pay, and no benefits.

The gig economy isn’t taking over, but it has become a useful emblem of what it is like to work for a living in late-stage capitalism. No wonder it seemed to be everywhere.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/gig-economy-isnt-really-taking-over/580180

A tale of two minimum wages - The knowledge economy is for the rich people not the poor

It's sort of like mixing states of The Flintstones and the The Jetsons in a mess of income disparity and you get what you pay for!

Small towns are small for a reason. Make nothing, have nothing. If they made a living wage but chose to buy noting making nothing in town because stores would not make money from the lack of sales then that is a sign of depression they need medication! The wages do have to go up or have most of their people just doing without. Small towns need to be brought up but if they are broke they can't. 

With the changes and uprising of the knowledge economy smaller towns can't compete with bigger cities. Life is slower in the country. Small towns don't have the resources or the pot of people with money. In small towns the workers will be just harassed by the push for productivity push more likely quitting their job in four months. Like Tulsa has their gathering place but in small towns they have plastic bottles floating in the pond. Sad like my college professor said "If you are raised in the corn field your mind is only mushed in the corn field you live in." Relating to keeping your mind active or you loose it. "Use it or loose it!" More education is needed but education is like good credit it cost money you have to buy something for good credit. And so is where the state needs to educate it's people, raise the pay for the support!
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609076/in-these-small-cities-ai-advances-could-be-costly

Why the deficiency? Something from the dark ages where the lack of enlightenment makes them easy to control. But then only to have riots burning down their Library of Alexandria over a door knob tax! Deprived of education living badly or living badly because they like it that way nerveless it makes others suffer along with them as going low is like quick sand. So that brings up the point of the quote "Big city bright lights." It has nothing to do with lights. Enlightenment! Back in the 1900's if you wanted to go to college you had to go to the big city. Thus educated people lived in the city. Explaining the other term for the time "Simple minded farmers." Shown by the need to educate the farmers in the dust bowl days. The government had to bring these people up and they had to talk slowly to the farmers so they would get it. Sad, why are they that way in the first place.

***Hugh Hammond Bennett, who came to be known as "the father of soil conservation," had been leading a campaign to reform farming practices well before Roosevelt became president. Bennett called for "...a tremendous national awakening to the need for action in bettering our agricultural practices." He urged a new approach to farming in order to avoid similar catastrophes.
https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1583.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Hammond_Bennett

So these days in smaller towns do need to be brought up like the farmers in the dust bowl days or like the dust bowl will The knowledge economy be bad for small towns! So without higher wages and support there will be a fail to the knowledge economy it will be for the rich people that can afford it not for the poor that walks with no car showing up to work tired from the walk in the heat. No business wants workers that cant take of themselves because they cant take care of the workplace it's not sustainable long term. The minimum wage needs to go up for the workers to afford to get brought up to compete in the changes!

***60% of employees bring their financial stress into the workplace, so how do employers help keep their employees financially well and focused? We traveled to Huntsville to answer that question. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwUDsjeOlE

https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2018/11/03/tale-of-two-minimum-wages-orig.cnn-business/video/playlists/mobile-digital-shorts

The butterfly effect is true!

The butterfly effect is true! "Thunderstorms on the other side of the globe trigger heat waves in California." 

~~~~~Thunderstorms on the other side of the globe trigger heat waves in California.

The stronger the storms moving across Southeast Asia, the more intense the heatwaves in the Golden State.

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/04/12/Thunderstorms-on-the-other-side-of-the-globe-trigger-heat-waves-in-California/2111555098975/?sl=1

~~~~~In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

THE SCIENCE OF PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOM MICRODOSING

As a option  in the world of alternative therapies because what it does is Microdosing Psilocybin. It has been tested in research to repair brain damage. It is real and should be put down as a option as medical treatment as society is going to be brought up about this research because it is needed to go beyond what failed treatments we all have now. Something to think about looking at the open road ahead! 

Microdosing should used in a long term sense for behavior modification in changing your life but if you are under the hammer it's best to see a Psychedelic therapist to take a normal dose for healing!

Don't take my word for it. I just point to the path what healing anyone does is their healing for themselves so it takes them to decide their own path to heal! A hug for you!

~~~~~THE SCIENCE OF PSILOCYBIN MUSHROOM MICRODOSING
While psychedelic substances have been illegal and prohibited from study in the vast majority of countries up until the past few years, many of the world’s top experts have made incredible strides picking up on research started in the 1950s and 60s.

Although almost no research has been done on microdosing specifically, we know something about what large doses of psychedelics do to the brain.

Much of what we understand about how psychedelics work involves serotonin, a chemical that keeps our brains ticking. It is one of the most important neurotransmitters in the brain and affects nearly everything we do, from how we feel to how we process information.

Classic psychedelics such as LSD and Psilocybin share a similar structure to serotonin, and work along a similar pathway…

Many antidepressants (called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs) try to make serotonin more plentiful in the brain to make you feel better.

Psychedelics work more directly, by mimicking serotonin. This means that one of their main effects is to stimulate a serotonin receptor, located in the prefrontal cortex, called “5-HT2A.”

The stimulation of the 5-HT2A receptor leads to two very important results:

The production of “Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor” (BDNF). BDNF is “like Miracle-Gro for your brain. It stimulates growth, connections, and activity.” [1]
The increased transmission of “Glutamate.” Glutamate is the neurotransmitter most responsible for brain functions like cognition, learning, and memory. [2]
Glutamate and BDNF work together in ways we’re still understanding, but it’s become clear that having more of each leads to many of the benefits we all seek from microdosing. [3]

Another thing psychedelics do is to cause parts of the brain that might not usually communicate with one another… to communicate with one another!

Psychedelics allow these unique connections to be formed by dampening the activity of an often over-used part of our brain called the “Default Mode Network” (DMN). [4]

The Default Mode Network is an area of the brain used for an array of different mental activities, including day-dreaming, self-reflection, and thinking about the past or the future. Some studies suggest that depression is linked to an overactive DMN. [5] It’s possible that a highly active DMN causes us to ruminate, over-analyze ourselves, and step out of the present moment to constantly question the past and the future.

This helps explain why these substances could be used to combat depression and anxiety, and also lead to insights and creative perspectives that otherwise remain inaccessible to us.
https://thethirdwave.co/microdosing/mushrooms

~~~~~LSD and magic mushrooms could heal damaged brain cells in people suffering from depression, study shows. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/psychedelic-drugs-brain-repair-lsd-depression-anxiety-lsd-dmt-amphetamines-ketamine-a8395511.html

~~~~~This Is Your Brain on Microdoses of Psilocybin
Microdosing psilocybin via "magic truffles" may promote out-of-the-box thinking.
New research from the Netherlands suggests that taking minuscule amounts of psilocybin in a "microdose" may improve both convergent and divergent thinking in ways that promote cognitive flexibility, creativity, and single-solution problem-solving. A typical psychedelic dose of psilocybin—which is found in “magic mushrooms” and “magic truffles”—for someone with average body weight is about 3.5 grams when the mushroom or truffle is dried; a microdose is roughly 1/10th of a hallucinogenic dosage.

The latest study on microdosing psychedelics led by Luisa Prochazkova of the Cognitive Psychology Unit & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition at Leiden University, “Exploring the Effect of Microdosing Psychedelics on Creativity in an Open-Label Natural Setting," was published October 25 in the journal Psychopharmacology.

In describing their new study, Prochazkova and co-authors said, "Taken together, our results suggest that consuming a microdose of [psychedelic] truffles allowed participants to create more out-of-the-box alternative solutions for a problem, thus providing preliminary support for the assumption that microdosing improves divergent thinking."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201811/is-your-brain-microdoses-psilocybin

Why we all are so tight - The US minimum wage through the years

Why are things are so high, going to college, buying a car or food anything?

Why are there many living in a third world condition burring wood more?

Many not getting a education because they can't afford it, in the world of 

changes the knowledge economy with people walking with no cars! 

Why the decline? Low wages! Low makes low as in social NObility

because they can't go that far. Doesn't help anyone with anything!

It's a world of sorry your income is too low so they just don't try.

The income needs to go up. And is ok to go up as we all are still here 

every time they raised the wages because people spend what they earn

and why there is so much stuff these days because they can afford it!

You make nothing so you have nothing! 

It's time to be brought up or just do without!

~~~~~When President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed America’s first federal minimum wage into law in 1938, it was 25 cents per hour. Adjusted for inflation, that would be worth about $4.45 today.

Scroll over the chart to see the US federal minimum wage through history, and what it would be worth in today’s dollars.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/business/us-minimum-wage-by-year/index.html

Walmart Robots making workers work harder around them

Walmart is pushing more on robots and so in that the workers it replaces will have to move to something else and so back and forth to many other jobs within the store. It's the knowledge economy at work. Not so good for towns that are brought up yet or just too many poor they just don't have it. So because of being low it's harder to get higher bouncing back and forth to other jobs at work going around the robots. I see high turn over because the work is getting harder with the pay more likely not supporting the workload.

Well work is getting harder like years ago with the "Do more with less" in that was a fail as the workers had to get less done faster. And you shouldn't put the workers in that position anyway and so it failed.

So now with robots making the workers work around them is just tiring! On the same point of when local Walmarts would push the bipolar workers into mania so they put more in the shelf making other workers have to work harder looking bad."Why are you not productive like him?" I saw the Walmart memo in the office about it! It said to not do it because of "Possibly undesirable results." Glad we got brought up from it. But now to say "Don't work too hard." is a stupid thing to say being the new work environment with robots taking over your job making you go here and there back and forth!

~~~~~The future of retail work
Although Walmart maintains that the bots allow workers to engage more with customers, labor advocates worry that automating manual tasks will trigger layoffs in retail.

Walmart has said that it will reduce the hours it assigns workers to unloading boxes and mopping the floors. That will lead to some employee attrition over time, Walmart said.

"As we evolve, there are certain activities, certain jobs that'll go away," Walmart US CFO Michael Dastugue said at an analyst conference last month.

But Walmart expects to use some of the hours it saves because of the robots to assign workers to newly created roles, such as selecting customers' grocery-pickup and delivery orders.

Dastugue said that technology will force employees to be flexible and "be able to handle change."

"We may need them to do them one activity in the morning and a different activity in the afternoon," he said.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/09/business/walmart-robots-retail-jobs/index.html

https://blogs.psychcentral.com/humor/2010/07/bipolar-mania-come-ride-with-me

***Note when you buy something keep in mind if will make life harder for the workers.
Make your life easier and others also!

The story of Bucket Man and relating to the Headington Shark

Things relate in strange ways. Way back in the 90's my friend was going to Korea to teach in a hagwon so to give him something to liven things up when he was there, we went out and took photos of me with a bucket on my head holding a mop. And he took photos of me in my white Subaru driving in the mud in Broken arrow by the Verdigris River. But anyway the photo of me by the TV? What you don't see is a bad porno of something in a bad place on pause with me posing in front of it with the remote under my legs looking like a turd from the brown carpet. 

I wanted them to be a WTF kind of photos he could take with him for him and to break the ice with people in Korea. It did but he found out later he was working for the Korean mafia. He didn't know at the time, he just kind of fit in being he was a product of the 70's! Who knew!
http://dugbugmp3.homestead.com/index.html

Relating to the Headington Shark in how it came to be. It is sort of on the same sorts!

~~~~~'It went in beautifully as the postman was passing': the story of the Headington Shark. One April evening in 1986, Bill Heine was sitting on the steps opposite his newly purchased terraced house in Oxford, drinking a glass of wine, when he turned to his friend and asked a simple question: “Can you do something to liven it up?”

His friend, the sculptor John Buckley, provided an answer in the shape of an eight-metre (25ft) shark which would sit on his roof, perpetually appearing as though it had just crashed into the house from the sky. The fibreglass fish, which became known as the Headington Shark after the Oxford suburb, led Heine, a local journalist and businessman who died last week, into a six-year legal battle with the local council.

The process turned a relatively unremarkable street into a beloved local landmark and resulted in one of the most notable triumphs of British eccentricity over petty bureaucracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/apr/07/it-went-in-beautifully-as-the-postman-was-passing-the-story-of-the-headington-shark-bill-heine

Being Real, Polyandry Is Actually Way More Popular Than Anthropologists Have Led Us to Believe

It's said No man is an island. No one is self-sufficient; everyone relies on others. 
- John Donne.

Noted in Polyamory the point to be better as a whole like in the Cipolla matrix. All wins is intelligent people. And so we all should be intelligent than not!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cipolla-matrix.png

~~~~~Polyandry Is Actually Way More Popular Than Anthropologists Have Led Us to Believe. If you knew anything about evolutionary biology, you'd know that polyandry, the practice of taking more than one husband, is an evolutionary aberration in human social structures because all human social structures would look exactly like lion prides or gorilla troops if nature took its proper misogynistic course. Men would sit around, ready to ward off hyenas, and women would do pretty much everything else. It's anthropology, you guys, plain and simple. Or it was, until two anthropologists surveyed the literature on polyandry and reminded everyone recently that polyandry among humans is way more common than conventional wisdom would have us believe.

The Atlantic's Alice Dreger identifies the roughly two dozen societies on the Tibetan plateau where polyandry exists as a legitimate form of mating and pair-bonding. Those plateau societies are a well-trod example, but, according to an article in the journal Human Nature by anthropologists Katherine Starkweather, a PhD candidate at the University of Missouri, and Raymond Hames, professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska, there are way more instances of polyandry beyond the "classic polyandrous" Tibetan region. Starkweather's careful combing of anthropological accounts reveals 53 additional polyandrous societies living far afield from the Tibetan plateau:

Indeed, according to Starkweather and Hames, anthropologists have documented social systems for polyandrous unions "among foragers in a wide variety of environments ranging from the Arctic to the tropics, and to the desert." Recognizing that at least half these groups are hunter-gatherer societies, the authors conclude that, if those groups are similar to our ancestors — as we may reasonably suspect — then "it is probable that polyandry has a deep human history."

Rather than treating polyandry as a mystery to be explained away, Starkweather and Hames suggest polyandry constitutes a variation on the common, evolutionarily-adaptive phenomenon of pair-bonding — a variation that sometimes emerges in response to environmental conditions.

Polyandry, explains Dreger, is a solution to these environmental conditions, things like food scarcity or childcare insurance (it's important to have back-up husband on hand to provide socially-approved impregnation if something happens to first-string husband). The Bari people in Venezuela, for instance, have a system for recognizing two fathers of the same child, and this dual-fatherhood, according to anthropologists from Penn State, apparently gives children a better shot at surviving to age 15. The "two-dad" system is, according to Starkweather and Hames, "informal polyandry," because such societies may only recognize one of the men as a formal husband, but the important point is that systems like the one belonging to the Bari are all socially recognized.

Anthropologists came to think of polyandry as more of an aberration than it really is because, explains Dreger, ever since anthropologist George Murdock wrote in 1957 that almost no cultures exhibit polyandry "as the dominant and most preferred form of family life," anthropology has "accidentally been playing a scholarly version of the Telephone Game." Rather than understanding polyandry the way Murdock described it as "rarely culturally favored," anthropologists came to think that polyandry was rarely culturally permitted. That's a big difference, one that makes for all sorts of fun sexist implications:

In an email interview with me, Starkweather remarked, "I don't think that anyone, including Murdock, was operating from an explicitly sexist standpoint. However, I do think that the definitions of polyandry, and thus perceptions about its rarity, may have been due at least in part to the fact that an overwhelming percentage of anthropologists collecting data and shaping theory at the time were men." During Murdock's time, "there seemed to be a fairly pervasive belief that polyandry didn't make any sense from a male's perspective."

That explanation — that Western male anthropologists had a hard time "believing" in polyandry — makes sense. Humans appear prone, on average, to sexual jealousy, and so it would not be unreasonable for many of us — men and women alike — to project an assumption that sexual jealousy would make poly-unions untenable. Indeed, anthropologists have found that in both polyandry (one woman, multiple husbands) and polygyny (one husband, multiple wives), sexual jealousy often functions as a stressor in families around the world.

Ah, but Starkweather has helped adjust these anthropological misconceptions. Polyandry does occur, but often only when there are way more men milling around than there are fertile women, which has been, Hames says, the case among landowning societies way more often than polyandry has occured. How do landowning, non-egalitarian cultures deal with their dude surplus, in that case? It's pretty simple — they send them into the priesthood, tempt them into exploring the New World, or just ship them off to war. Problem solved! Landowning society can continue apace with its boring monogamy and polygyny.
https://jezebel.com/polyandry-is-actually-way-more-popular-than-anthropolog-5981095

Society is Declining! Acceptance rates at top colleges are dropping

As you know "Studies suggest that illiteracy rates are rising steadily each year." Facing the knowledge economy in small towns that can't compete with bigger towns. It just makes people work harder so they will just quit then get another job and quit that going on and on. Making that job skills gap as those jobs are unfulfilled or high turn overs lowering the businesses so everything sucks. Society is declining a point of income inequality, not being able to afford their education as there is not enough money to give grants all the poor for an education. Or getting a cheaper education, career college with no deeper learning there just a little square of a window unaware of other people and things or reasoning around them? Not questioning their education! All of the above killing innovation as there is a decline!

This is a problem that needs to be fixed! We all need to be brought up. But if we are declining we are not succeeding nor will anyone else. Like the slow driver blocking the road unaware there are others around them running on their time not knowing others have time also and it's being wasted. Both losing is ignorance. Just leave 5 minutes early? Adapting to ignorance is enabling ignorance, you are to loose time because of them? They should be brought up! Pass them doing 100 MPH blowing the doors off their car so they might think there are others on the road, I might want to compete with traffic not to take them lower to my level! Well low is fail. Brought up is up! The point is to do better!

~~~~~Acceptance rates at top colleges are dropping, raising pressure on high school students. The ongoing college admissions cheating scandal shows just how far some people are willing to go to get their kids into an elite university.

And with acceptance rates at top colleges and universities falling to record or near-record lows, high school students are facing increasing pressure when it comes to applying to the nation's best schools.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/03/us/ivy-league-college-admissions-trnd/index.html