tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post71180052177600872..comments2024-03-28T12:01:08.192-06:00Comments on The Blog Fodder: Life in Ukraine - Local transportationThe Blog Fodderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-8460536965789192292013-05-15T22:20:09.163-06:002013-05-15T22:20:09.163-06:00When you have no money, all you have it time. Eve...When you have no money, all you have it time. Everything takes longer. Inefficient use of time means wages are low. Low wages encourages inefficient use of time. When I see so many people walking, walking, walking, I think "don't these people have something to do?" and the answer is no, they don't. Life is geared to accomplishing very little.The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-87619527062251648352013-05-15T20:03:29.518-06:002013-05-15T20:03:29.518-06:00When it takes so much longer to get places and do ...When it takes so much longer to get places and do things, does it follow that there is less frenetic activity too? I am not minimizing the economic hardship where you live but wonder if our affluent, automobile addicted lifestyles really increase stress-driving in traffic, thinking you can do a great many things because of the transportation. We have one car and I often make my way around by Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-41017166529014805902013-05-15T02:22:52.200-06:002013-05-15T02:22:52.200-06:00There are losses and gains in every social or econ...There are losses and gains in every social or economic shift. And winners and losers. Which is why all "reforms" are opposed by some. I would guess 80% of the citizens of the FSU were better off under the Soviet System than they are now. Society, at least in Siberia, where Tanya was from, was much closer knit, people were far more equal and they were looked after by the system.The Blog Fodderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441978691701289074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689245642139665514.post-76007521543956575632013-05-14T18:22:31.133-06:002013-05-14T18:22:31.133-06:00Very interesting post. I suppose most of the peopl...Very interesting post. I suppose most of the people who are forced to travel on foot or by bicycle would prefer to have cars if they could afford them. And yet when everyone does have a car and no one walks anywhere - as I saw when I would go back to my old home town in the USA to visit family there - those villages and towns also seem to have lost all sense of community. They seem to have paid aChartreusehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05919069110736697400noreply@blogger.com