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http://despair.com/worth.html This explains SO much.

This afternoon, I was driving home from Hollys doctors appointment when I saw a car on the highway. It was an older car…maybe a 1990 Shadow, something like that. Paint was faded, a bit rusty and it was in the slow lane gathering speed, chugging along as if it were running on repurposed fryer oil. [...]

Erica Burnstrom, a 28-year-old aeronautics engineer living in San Jose, CA, said that abstract concepts such as aerobic activity and raising one’s knees above the hips in a rapid “pumping” motion have not translated into any practical applications in her day-to-day life. … “I understand that my phys-ed teacher needed to know all that stuff because that was his job, but I’m not some specialist who needs to lie flat, lift her torso into a sitting position, and then return to the original position for a living.”