KindnessIsPunk

I know this is just a shit post so I'm not taking it seriously just more using it as a tangent to talk about something that's been rooting around in my brain for a while.

I have always lived below my means. If I want something I write it down and then if I still want it in a month I'll think about it but the most important thing to me is that if I buy something I'll actually use it.

If I won the lottery I don't think my life would change that much. I know everyone says this but I really mean it. I would probably just donate it.

I simply do not need more money and there are so many people that could really use that money to feed themselves, to clothe themselves. Maybe it's easier to say now but I don't think so.

I've always had the money to buy a car, hell, at some points I've had enough to do it in cash but I've always taken the bus.

I like to maintain a certain amount of capital for a rainy day but if my needs are taken care of and I can reasonably be assured that nothing's going to happen to me I've donated any extra to my local food bank.

He learned from the best.

You got this! Just try to make small sustainable changes to your lifestyle to be a little bit more social when you can.

Oof

I like the idea of something like the Digital Euro

Smart Tube?

I don't think that was always the case, most often people are only involved in politics on the financial level, how it directly affects them and aren't educated enough on the subjects to know when someone's fleecing them.

However recently you're absolutely correct they are rooting out empathy and forcing people to engage with it on a social level. That is to say are you willing to disappear your neighbor over ideological differences.

It really does break my heart, these children didn't ask for this and we didn't need more data points to know this would be the case.

Yep, privileged enough that politics doesn't affect them

Tangentially related but I think one of the biggest issues with that instinct is that it plays right into the debate bro energy. Because it was a framework to let idiots feel like they were correct without ever having to have any actual knowledge on the subject.

Which is why I think it caught on so much because it's very intoxicating to feel like you can never be wrong especially for people who are young and vulnerable about their position in the world. Showing them a way they can be strong and confident and never be wrong is appealing but it also obviously won't lead to growth.

I was speaking about the user visible behavior, the context that I was replying to.

You'd have to have been asleep for the last 50 years at least to not see this.