Well when the masters degrees (let alone doctorates) from the GOOD colleges/universities cost upwards of 180,000 USD to 250,000+ USD; If you are a middle class citizen or below (u gotta earn more than 7 million annually to become upper class last i checked in 2011 in USA) Its kinda IMPOSSIBLE to get a masters degree unless you have a trust fund Or get a career and save up for 15-30 years first Its even harder to actually get accepted to such a school.

Sucks to be american i guess. I'm in korea so i just need to study hard and get good grades..

Yea its what happens when the rich run the country and decide they want to get richer and keep other people from becoming rich themselves. College degree costs since the 1970s have gone up from 14,000 per year to over 100,000 per year on the masters degrees and higher from the good/only schools that matter here in USA. Cost of living has also gone up to its highest ever point vs median wage ever. Class separation (poverty to middle class to upper class) has also gone up to its highest; So much so that if you are below the top 40% of the middle class annual income bracket you are actually living in a state of poverty. This is made worse by the fact that every one in USA above the upper 30% of the middle class not only DOES NOT PAY most taxes, they ALSO start getting sizable tax credits (taxes pay them instead if them paying taxes) at that level. Also thanx to the baby boomer generation; the methods used to start industries and companies back in the 1970s and before that time are now mostly ILLEGAL or now require ridiculous amounts of licensing fees and initial starter costs while back then in 70s and prior not only did most of the methods used cost very little, some of them cost nothing. Example: McDonalds: The guy started by selling burgers out of his back yard to people at cook outs/parties. This is now completely illegal unless you are a licensed food vendor who has been inspected by a health inspector and is part of at the very least a business or limited liability corporation. The vendors license cost varies You need the cooking apparatus to be licensed as a food stuff delivery method (you actually need an 8000-15000 dollar license to get a food cart or truck licensed to serve people) You need a business plan and cost to inventory and maintenance all set up and OK'd by a bank Then you need to be under a licensed company or LLC which you also have to pay for And if its a food truck you need a commercial drivers license to operate a vehicle that is owned by a commercial enterprise. Career wise you cant even get a career with out at LEAST trade schooling or an associates degree. Other wise unless you know some one who knows some one or start your own business; You won't make more than minimum wage period. If you do make minimum wage you also need to be put on welfare and medicare otherwise you WONT have enough money for food and a place to live. So yea USA is pretty F'D up right now and its getting worse each year due to rising price of petroleum vs it's now shrinking supply and our refusal to switch our industry to at least a renewable resource to power and fuel it. (Methanol and ethanol are both renewable resources made from plants which can be grown anywhere thanx to greenhouses by the way, so far brazil is the only nation in the world to actually switch to using chiefly one of those)

Yeah, and also..federal reserve bank screwed up you guys so hard. and also, how the hell they thought about making financial obligation into USD? Seriously that's a one of the most fxcked up thing in the world.

Ish the Federal reserve department that runs it: FED, the housing bubble burst/crash of 2008 was actually successfully predicted by chairman Alan Greenspan back in 1994! The housing bubble was made worse back in early 2000s when banking cartel AIG started trading financial derivatives (loans mortgagees and the compound interest on them) like or as stock options, then worse again when they started double trading and mass trading them. (Trading the same option to more than one person to earn 2 or more lines of profit off of ONE product). Now if i had to guess; I would say they did this due to the fact that the USA trades GOLD and the now these sheets of paper which are basically packages of assets written up on an ownership deed that says holder owns X amount of Y assets... Any way the FED and government handle international DEBT the same way AIG handled and double/mass traded the derivatives which caused the 2008 depression. My guess is they did it to see what would happen when the USA international Debt trade bursts and the potential financial end of the world that may ensue. But thats just my speculation on it any way. Basically the job of the FED or federal reserve is just to manage how much money exists and how much more to print; at its simplest and core function. The problem with it is; it is a PRIVATELY OWNED banking cartel. So yea its pretty F'D up. But yea pretty much in the USA we basically have slavery enforced by DEBT and a rigid system that by DEFAULT now makes it so the have nots are as close to permanently made to be have nots as they can be with out causing revolution on any scale.

NERD

Yea basically unless your born into wealth you are VASTLY NERFED from ever obtaining wealth

Ahem. I spelled Nerd m8

Idk coulda sworn it said nerf but idk it is midnight here lol an yea lol im a geek an proud of it lol

I can eat you ._.

Yea good luck with that; Army vet, medium build, average height, mid to heavy muscle tone; So yea i kinda doubt it lol

I'm a bear

Lol i got swords i aint scared lol (got guns too but those can be "too clumsy and random" lol jk an jk but yea lmao) an yea jk but lol nice levity ;)

[b]IM A BEAR [/b]

That's why my american friend just live in here. really sorry to hear that.

Thats life: the cities may be bright and the stuff we have now may be awesome as far as technological and civilization advancement go, However when you look behind the curtain you see that the world is a horrible messy place driven by greed, the lust for power and the need to obtain more resources or power by theft or by force; And thats how the world has been run for roughly 4,000 years AND IS STILL RUN. Craziest thing ever though 60% of the 7.4 BILLION people on planet earth live in poverty. 40% of the entire population live with out access to clean drinking water. All you have to do to get drinking water is take ocean water filter out the solid particulate, remove any chemical pollutant and distill it to remove the salt and re fortify it with minerals. THATS LITERALLY ALL YOU HAVE TO DO. (Oh an 70% of the planet is covered with ocean water) So poverty yea thats a tougher problem to fix. Clean drinking water ALL you need is a few filters, boil it to steam and collect that steam, then put needed minerals back into the purified sterile water to make it drinkable. LITERALLY every government of every nation in the entire world posses the technologies required to give every single citizen of their country access to unlimited clean drinking water. NOT A SINGLE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD HAS DONE THIS, we have had the tech needed to do it since the EARLY 1900s. So yea planet earth is beyond messed up right now.

Maybe invention of money was not a nice idea..

Its more than just money, its the amount of resources per person and the power over X amount of people that follow your rule. Literally until we set up a system like in star trek where EVERY ONE is free to do anything they wish to pursue (so long as it does not harm others) and EVERY ONE has access to all resources; The world is never truly going to get better so long as there is some one in charge with a stock pile of everything and every one has to obey them.

Ah yeah, few people rule the shit out of millions of people.

Even if it was a billion people ruling each other; As long as there are people ruling above others AND People stocking up resources for themselves It will always be messed up. An right now its basically 15,000-50,000 people that rule over 7,400,000,000 people And the 15k-50k have ALL THE RESOURCES ON EARTH at their disposal.

Yeah. We need something like replicator. it's a machine that uses nano machine, turn atoms to another atoms.

We dont even need something that far advanced. We just need to realize; 1) people NEED resources to live. 2) people NEED resources to do/make things. 3) people NEED communication and transportation and trade of themselves and those resources. 4) people NEED a place to live. 5) people NEED a controlled environment in order to survive and live with out being preoccupied with trying to survive. 6) WE ALL NEED TO PROVIDE 1-5 TO EVERY PERSON ON EARTH FOR FREE OR AS CLOSE TO BREAKING EVEN AS WE CAN(free or as close to the GDP created covering the cost of doing so). Right now we HAVE the tech needed to: Create power for next to nothing from renewable energy sources (solar, wind, ocean currents, steam engines[ even nuke plants are just steam engine power systems ], methane, ethanol, methanol) Create transportation (rails, roads, flying, sailing aka any boat on the water) Create instant communication Provide water via ocean purification&distillation Provide food via agriculture and greenhouses Create shelter from virtually any material 70% of the planet surface is uninhabited by permanent structures for living and THATS JUST THE OCEANS (something like 20% of all land mass on earth is how much is covered by cities towns and agriculture) And we have air conditioning, the ability to filter out nearly all contaminants and the ability to build a structure to withstand most natural disasters. SO we ALREADY have EVERYTHING we need to do it. We just wont because; Its not profitable It requires every one to share everything resource wise No one can agree on how to run it let alone who will run it No one knows how to set up the proper service to resource trade to manage it all. An thats it.

Ah...That's really sad truth.