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150 sats \ 4 replies \ @Malachi17 4 Sep \ on: SN saved me last night alter_native
I sometimes think the "stack sats" crowd forgets that there are people out there with more immediate needs. The truth is, with as much money as is often being thrown around on frivolous things, you shouldn't be in a position to be wanting for necessities. I'm glad there was a solution for you, but it says something about the current financial systems that you are where you are to start with.
Inequality is inevitable, it is not a headache for me. There are people who have too much wealth and others who lack it. It is true that the financial system is shit, sometimes it seems that no matter how hard you try, how early you get up, we will always be in an endless roulette of debts, the important thing here is to learn to break the wheel and that is what we are all here for. When I first emigrated from Venezuela, I saw the problems of others as stupid things, I came from seeing people go hungry, seeing them not being able to buy their medicines, I saw people suffer to get a kilo of rice, friends who dropped out of school and/or university because they could not pay for it or to be able to work to eat, among other things; I emigrated and I saw that other people's problems were: "I couldn't buy a pair of shoes", "I didn't go on vacation" and I thought: "what idiotic or dissatisfied people, they have health and food, what are they complaining about?"... Then after a few years I don't think like that anymore, everyone works and strives to get what they want, we don't all have the same priorities and needs, right now somewhere in the world there is a mother struggling to pay for her son's terminal illness, on the other side of the world there is a family working double shifts to pay for their children's college education and on the other side of the world there is a family traveling on a cruise through Europe.
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It will be inevitable so long as the values are contrived and fake. The bowl of rice is worth the whole cruise ship if you happen to be starving. When you place the value first on humanity, then the inequality in the sense of raw needs vs luxury is greatly checked. Usually, this is where charity is supposed to fill the gaps, but you also have rich lunatics running charities.
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You are not wrong about that, things have the value that we ourselves give them. In an apocalypse the only thing that has value is water and food and ironically the resources are wasted and the earth is destroyed in the end for nothing. I have a very unpopular opinion and it has even created debates between my husband and I, it is about gold, I understand the value of this in society, but I also think, is it worth destroying ecosystems, destroying the planet to get gold? If in the end gold does not quench thirst or hunger, what is the use of so much gold if we do not have a planet to inhabit? Perhaps with this I am going off topic, but it is one of the things I think about in silence.
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It is a valid question. I think Solomon had 666 talents of gold not coincidentally. The best use of it was for that period for the purposes of God. Beyond that, I'd say you are right.
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