Comments on: The Problems with Saving http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2009/06/03/the-problems-with-saving/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:29:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2009/06/03/the-problems-with-saving/comment-page-1/#comment-1642 Paul Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:52:00 +0000 http://www.lonegunman.co.uk/?p=3013#comment-1642 Being married to a Japanese woman, I can never truly escape the habit of saving and thrift. I think Stewart Brand from the Long Now Foundation sums up the problem very well, which can be equally applied to peoples' refusal to save money: "Our inability to imagine the future is actually an unwillingness to accept responsibility for it" Oh that and of course, successive governments greedily inflating away people's savings to bail out feckless borrowers. But that's another problem. Being married to a Japanese woman, I can never truly escape the habit of saving and thrift. I think Stewart Brand from the Long Now Foundation sums up the problem very well, which can be equally applied to peoples’ refusal to save money:

“Our inability to imagine the future is actually an unwillingness to accept responsibility for it”

Oh that and of course, successive governments greedily inflating away people’s savings to bail out feckless borrowers. But that’s another problem.

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