Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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The number of millionaires in the world has reached 10 million. In other news, a family is forced to give up son to an orphanage because their $3 a day salary just wouldn't cut it.
It's this type of disparity that sickens me the most out of everything else that's messed up. Some people are just born into suffering, while others take their privilege for granted. I find individuals who think their expensive car or estate or clothes would impress me or him or her and gain them acceptance are the stupidest people of all. Far from being impressed, I'm disgusted. What's the point of looking nice when someone else is in rags? I don't understand it at all.
I'd be more impressed and respect you more if you had the self-control and perspective to know that though you have the capability of being a bigshot, being the bigshot isn't so gratifying when a fellow human being somewhere in the world has to give up her son because she doesn't have the wealth that you use to maintain your public image and careless self-indulgent splurges.
Remember New Years Eve? The countdown, the shouts, the fun laughter on the streets, the confetti, the beer bottles, the trash on the ground left over from your celebrations? Remember the men whose job it was to wait on the sidelines and, with broom and sweeper, would sweep the streets in the quiet dark? I can never enjoy such celebrations or partake of them because of these guys. Or the people whose job it was to wait on you? I knew for some it wasn't a night of celebration and cheer. I find it fundamentally unjust that my joy is someone else's drudgery. Who am I, and who are they, for this disparity to exist? So now I stay home.
It's the same thing happening in this case.
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