Reply #21: It used to mean knowing that your children would be better off than you are.

[Donnachaidh]

Now it's just corporate lingo to con people into lifelong debt to big banks for useless plastic junk and electronic toys.

I cannot begin to describe how repulsed I was when I first saw an advertisement showing a woman watching movies on a subway as if it was some sort of HUGE new experience. Of course, the phone costs several hundred dollars, and the access to download adds another thousand a year -- but it's NEW!

:puke: