I like the Butch Cassdy line form the Movie   ( Knife fight there are no rules in a Knife fight) then butch kicks him in the you know what s   LOLIn the Timber business we called these folks Timber pimps... 

if u seen the movie 'Limitless' it sould resonate with the psyche of how i believe our society is conditioned into a delusionally bipolar'grass is greener' mindet where we are either very happy/successful, otherwise we are down in a ditch waiting for the next opportunity to get back up there and be ecstatically happy and successful in the future.what about incremental. to me, that's how savings and investment actually materialize. heck, the very word itself 'invest' should encompass the fundamental of not consuming today in order to have more tomorow. i myself have times when i am broke but thats almost always right after a close where i invested than liquidated. my final thoughts are practically nobody on BP is living in the horrid shantytowns of any continent for matter where they are living in starving conditions with no food/water available on a daily basis nor having nothing to call their own other than the clothes on their back. such is the case out there for some large portion of some 8 BILLION humans on this planet. many, many if not most people out there all over the world don't own anything at all except the clothes they are wearing right now. likewise, many/most people on this planet don't have a practically endless supply of food so they dont go hungry. here in northamerica, luckly even homeless folks if there hungry can simply find out where the nearest 'soup kitchen' is and get a wholesome meal on a daily basis indefinitely. we have so many resources at our fingertips that it is so easy to start saving up 100s of dollars a month even based on minimum wage (whereas a family overseas living in rural areas with no local jobs other than living off the land, as is the majority of situations across the globe, may be lucky to even make $100 a YEAR!).

Regarding Los Angeles,  when I first moved to LA, downtown at night looked like a dystopian / Mad Max type movie set.

I feel like I've had the trailer and now I want to see the rest of the movie.

Totally agree with @Carlos RoviraMy work environment is a lot more relaxed than most work places out there, since I am a digital artist work on movies we basically work in a studio and phone calls are not a big deal at all.What I did get, when people around me found out I was doing REI, was a little bit of attitude and lots of questions, some of them automatically assumed that I have loads of money set aside just for REI and that I should just shut up and stop bragging.

Just got to see the latest addition to the Marvel cinematic universe,ANT-MAN.It was heaps of fun.Had a struggling underdog character, Scott Lang a would be cat burglar who just got out of jail and is trying to get his life back and see his daughter but hasn’t caught a break.He doesn’t give up, uses the resources at his disposal given by a wealthy benefactor who has faith and trust in him and has a group of friends who help him reach his or their common goal, defeat the bad guy and save the world and create a life for him and his family, in this case his daughter.Oh and yeah, he became a leader…a leader for the ants.Taking on challenges, whichever size they may be.Got me remembering Scott Carson’s post about movies.

I stumbled onto it in a search for something else a few years ago and listened to every podcast and read the forums instead of watching movies or playing video games.

But as Andy Dufresne said in The Shawshank Redemption (the best movie ever) - "You can get busy living, or you can get busy dying".

Isn't this precisely what a movie trailer is meant to do?  

You could advertise to movie studios so that it is not completely empty.