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And it wasn't always that way.
I'm looking at a nice glossy coffee-table book with testimonies from the 1930's .. the Depression. It's full of articles from people who lived through the Depression, who were grateful for the closeness that the families discovered.
They sat down to beans and biscuits and, say they, "ate like kings" ... hunger is the best sauce ... :- )
Literally, the more we have, the angrier we are about what we don't. If that kid over to my son's right has a box of 64 crayons to my kid's 32, it's time for trauma intervention :- )