>We are a community, but your success is not my success unless
>we both succeed. I think too many of us who are not winning,
>look at others winning and we feel like we made it. I feel
>that this concept is internalized in our lifestyles and when
>you combine this with the American way of doing things
>(credit, debt, the entire keeping up with the Jones' complex)
>you get what we currently have today...entire generations of
>people who are much more involved in appearing as achievers
>than actually achieving. People who are too investing in who
>is winning rather than am I winning? In the meantime, they are
>losing. We all are losing because time passes us by.
>
>Of course this is just one small aspect of the concept of
>group failure.

I think these are middle class and upper class problems. I don't think the hoods biggest problem is keeping up with the joneses.


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