I’m a Scout leader for my kid’s Beaver-now-Cub pack and we taught them the Hug-a-Tree method. We even had local Search and Rescue come out and speak to the kids for one of our meets. We taught them all sorts of amazingly simple life-saving techniques to avoid dying in the woods while lost. The best and simplest one…

“Regulated” in the parlance of the time meant well trained, well equipped, and well led...in the style of an army regular.

The pie you speak of is actually the sum many many smaller pies. It is possible to create your own.

Right...but this presumes anyone is interested in the working poor being able to retire (except, obvs, the working poor). I mean, look, I am speaking from an economic point of view. Double wages for working at McDonalds and you accomplish very little other than raising inflation and increasing the costs for consumer…