I'm a little curios. How many of us are willing to sell all of our meager possessions and move to those other countries described in this thread? (And I"m aware that some on this forum are from those countries but I can't speak for them). Would we be able to be independent songwriters? Would we be able to have our own music related businesses? Not sure, just askin. Personally, I would rather live in a country where I had at least a "chance" of financial success than a country where I was limited in what I could make. Assuredly there are problems in any society on earth right now. I'm also curious about the continued slavery in this country. Someone tell me one country in the world where everyone has not only the right, but the distinct possibility to be free from anyone ever telling them what they can or can't do. If not getting all the "breaks" everyone else gets is slavery I don't get it. Equality isn't that you get everything I have no matter the situation. Equality is you have the same opportunity I have to get what I have and vice versa.

And I know this is another one of those threads where we won't solve it on a forum.

Steve

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