We have not store of foods for at least 5 days. It seems you are millionaire in my viewpoint . So strange you wrote about how to feel wealthy? million kids do not find food for at least one time in a day and you stored for a month :D
Yes. You should feel wealthy with richest way because you never have faced hunger like 3rd world countries.
Whenever I hear snowflakes complaining in the USA about somebody saying a bad word, or something equally inane, I lose my cool because of things like this. There are even starving kids in my country and we are rapidly joining the ranks of the 3rd world for most of our population, yet we complain about somebody saying something mean, and my feelings hurt.
One of my friends from Pakistan, as we were working one day, we noticed a bottle of hair conditioner selling for $25! He picked it up and laughed, and told me, in his country, $25 would feed him, house him and pay for 1 month in college.
"Fallacy of relative privation ("not as bad as") – dismissing an argument or complaint due to the existence of more important problems in the world, regardless of whether those problems bear relevance to the initial argument."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
You guys do realize that Jerry would agree with the thrust of your argument, right?
Him attacking a psychological problem that happens to exist in a first world country (I would argue, mostly thanks to the corporations who have purchased the government, who can probably be held responsible for both some of your complaints about poverty in the third world and Jerry's topic in this post) is in no way a validation of what you are complaining about.
Do you guys go around shaming animal rescue charities because they are "wasting" money that could be used on humans?
No, I'm sorry, friend, that's exactly the point I was trying to make. I wasn't trying to shame anybody.
Jerry is showing us, in what I consider to be a humble manner, his acquisition of wealth. He isn't showing us a yacht, or a fancy new Porsche. He isn't flashing stacks of cash, or fancy jewelry. He is showing us that he has acquired food for his family's needs in case of a barren period.
What I was trying to get at is that in my country, I am surrounded by obese ingrates, 'Victims of Plentitude' if you will, who have their needs taken care of to the point that they make drama where none should exist. Screaming in the streets about some perceived injustice because somebody said a bad thing [which, mostly I agree, maybe the thing shouldn't be said, but whatever. its up to each person to be mature enough to control THEMSELVES], while just down the street from their "protests" a child is looking for a meal, or grandma can't pay her heating bill. It's disheartening, and it hurts me deeply that people have such twisted priorities.
Our respective locales sound alarmingly similar.
Your friend is true. And here family pays $25-30 for slum, a single room, a public toilet and a public kitchen and a public tube well. I have a charity school, and I can feed fruits 50 underprivileged kids just with less than $12, once in a week.
One of my school kids was working as a child laborer for 25-30 dollars in a month . But I brought him at @SchoolForSDG4 . $ 25 can only let him sleep in slums for a month. I had to help them financially Because we started our life journey from such level. I also know how critical situation kids are facing in USA now for recent natural disaster and in many other countries too. May God save all.
I believe , If we really want to see how one feel wealthy in cheapest way, then we should find them who are feeling happy with $25 a month. May be their words do not reach on steemit but medium. I wish all kids will get foods and schooling from around the world.
Yes may God save us all! Thank you for the amazing discussion on this post!
Thank you @jerrybanfield. I am thankful to you because I became serious on steemit after watching your tutorials on facebook. thanks for welcoming arguments <3
The rich are rich for the same reason the poor are poor which is the feeling of not being enough. The pain of separation is the same for all. The same pain of the poor yelling how the rich steal the world is what motivates the rich to yell back that the poor deserve their lot. Our only exit is to wake up to our humanity and connect with each other honestly without judgement or condemnation because in this connected mind the poor would understand the rich and the rich the poor as equals. The poor would help the rich appreciate life and the rich would give the poor any material goods needed. Therefore, the poor and the rich are victims of the same disease.
The old monk saying says: Ha happy is that person who has a lot. But happy is that person who has enough!
Yeah I feel you. Whenever I encounter those real-life wages in most of the countries I feel somehow ashamed that we're making fuss about not getting a re-fill in a caffee.
"that we cry about not getting a re-fill in the caffee."
Can you cite even one example of this in real life?
"Straw man fallacy – an argument based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
No, I live in a 3rd world country where re-fills don't exist.
It was more metaphorical of course.
And my 'cry about' I meant 'demand something better', so sorry if I'm struggling making myself clear enough here, English is not my native language.
So I'm glad if I'm wrong about this one and 1st world people are better than media paints them. )
"1st world people are better than media paints them."
I'm not going to say we are great, but I think we're a lot better than this, yeah.
Thank you for your comment.
Yes I never have faced hunger not one day in 33 years. What I have faced is sitting in the middle of all the wealth in the world and feeling suicidal because it somehow was still not enough. Is it worse to starve to death because a group of people in a few countries setup a system to hold all the wealth or to kill oneself in the middle of all that wealth? We all struggle with the disease and pain of separation. The rich and the poor alike have the same problem of not enough with different symptoms. In sharing life as it is where we are, we gain the experience we need to connect. When we assume our viewpoint is better or worse, we are in the middle of the problem and get motivation for a solution. Thus, to face hunger of the stomach or hunger of the soul is equally painful. In fact, I enjoy being hungry now and voluntarily fast. I think I might enjoy starving to death as a way to die which will then return my immortal soul to the collective.
Luckily I faced hunger many times in 25 years but the days only past.
Yes, people who run for wealth sometimes forget to feed their soul. As 3 parts (mind, soul, body) makes a human, thus it is important to feed rest of the parts. I know many friends who voluntarily fast for diet control but don't know how much of them have intention to feel hunger of hungry people not diet control. I liked the point
and to do this we should feed our soul. Our satisfaction is depends on expectations and we may not want more and more if we could realize what we have.
The video makes me feel wealthy !
You think you may enjoy starving to death as a way to die? This discussion has gone down a dark road ha
I'm sorry you had to see this tripe. Have an upvote.
@ats-david, I greatly respect your opinion on curation based on what I have seen of your history on this platform.
Would you be willing to expand on what makes this "tripe"? Is the complaint you responded to not merely a fallacy of relative privation, which could easily be slapped on any number of other posts, including things like charity posts aimed at animal rather than human rescue?
Do you feel this post is tripe because it is advice you have no use for? Or perhaps this is advice that only people that are "unappealingly weak, in a way that manifests as resource-paranoia, and can outwardly be perceived as entitlement or lack of worldliness/stoicism" would need? That is a vaguer description than I would like, and I'm not attempting to imply anything, but words are failing me at the moment in their specificity.
In other words, the target audience for this advice may be a bit neurotic/entitled, and this is perhaps a turn-off?
I certainly can understand completely skipping or even being turned off by this post. However, you taking your time to stop in and brand it as tripe is admittedly of more interest to me. For the record, it's also not for me, but I am not the target audience.
Having said that, I generally consider things that encourage people to take more responsibility for their and their families food security to be a good thing. Hardening households against any short-to-long-term disruptions in JIT grocery supply lines can only be a good thing. If more people did this, half the grocery stores and gas stations in Florida wouldn't have been cleaned out for Irma.
If this process has the side-effect of calming some people's neuroses, that can only be a good thing. 1 in 6 people in the US are on psychiatric meds. We may not be lacking in resources but we are lacking in both happiness and mental stability.
Bonus nonsense - if memory serves, eating tripe in Nethack returns "Yak - dog food!".
My 2(non)sense: Tripe is cow's stomach. Yum, yum menudo.
Also, as a bonus fact to your Psych-meds statistic: 1 in 8 Americans is dealing with alchoholism.
Yeah, it's a horror show out there.
Thank you @ats-david for understanding me.
Thank you for voting up these comments on the post to help me see them!
Yes I agree, I lived in 3rd word country and I know what are you talking about, people don't find even food for one day, and now I am living in Russia and it's hard for me to find a work because I am foreigner, but people that didn't live in poor countries they will never understand what we are talking about, they cry if they don't eat some cookies, but we don't have a choice, it's life, and life is unfair ... .
I feel sorry for you and You said words of thousands. I Hope you will find a better job. I am fan of jerry but I was laughing when he said cheapest. I think it is richest for my country. I Love jerry for his tutorials and he motivated me lot but I think this is a topic/title do not goes with millionaire.