Anyone else NOT been affected by the economy?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Only in that I desire to throw my radio out the window whenever I heard "OMG RECESSION OMG RECESSION OMG OMG OMG!!!!!1111". As if this really was the 1980s.

Media Discourse is so lame. I should become isolated from society and become a cheese farmer. I think I would care more about the world then.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Wait a minute, college kids are expected to invest in the United States? Lolz*

@Opebo: I was referring particularly to Ireland, by the mid 1980s we had roughly 15-20% unemployment, we now have just over 7%. Yet the media is acting like this downturn is THE WORST THING EVAR!11. And I know you won't care.

* - The culture of investment is weird. Up until very recently almost no-one in Ireland invested in the stock market outside of certain affluent groups (which includes my parents).

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Wait a minute, college kids are expected to invest in the United States? Lolz*

Saving money is something that can always be done. Putting such saved money in mutual funds is investing. No one is asking people in their early 20s to own real estate, but looking to invest is not something that should be restricted to old rich people. BRTD is past college BTW.

I wasn't aiming that question particularly at BRTD.

The idea of college kids, people my age, investing just makes me LOL extermely. It is a cultural thing.