FN: to exist (with a particular level of comfort)
Thus we have the Concord Coalition types , who are always whining that the national debt forces them to live well at their grandchildren 's expense .
As for taxes -- I would gladly give half my income to live in a country without desperate poverty and homelessness , with good schools and health care and child care for all who need it , with real environmental protection and good public services , and in which people who work for a living earn enough to live decently , as in this country too many full-time workers do not .
Condé Nast has also created a class of mandarin journalists , writers who live much better than they ever could if they wrote only for normal magazines .
If the United States grows like South Korea , your children 's grandchildren can live like Bill Gates--unless they rise above mediocrity and live even better .
In other words , he lives better losing money on $ 450 million in sales than he would making money on $ 200 million .
Almost surely not--because in 1950 they were middle class , while in 1996 they would be poor , even if they lived better in material terms .
That grandmother almost surely lives better than people of her age ever lived before , supported by Social Security checks that will greatly exceed the value of the contributions she and her husband paid into the system .
They can live quite well on pig 's blood , steal it from blood banks ( gross , but there you go ) , do the Angel rat diet , etc .
The best revenge is living well .