Yeah but think about this: more money me
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If anyone on Lemmy wants a financial answer to this question, which essentially what it boils down to given the society we're in, I would recommend listening to the latest Weekly Show podcast episode with Jon Stewart interviewing the Nobel Prize winning economist Richard Thaler.
He breaks down this exact mentality in a way that makes a lot of sense.
The problem is not only that, but that those who want to leave the world better when they die can't seem to agree what "better" means...
Pick up trash you find on the ground. Hold the door open for the person behind you. Say thank you. Apologize and mean it.
It’s not that difficult.
In my opinion (and personal experience), I used to freeze up and not do anything because I felt I couldn’t make a big enough difference — so why bother? Then I had kids, and I realized that everything I do (and don’t do!) is scrutinized and repeated by my children.
My small actions have now been multiplied by 2. Pretty neat if you ask me.
TIL holding open doors will stop technofeudalism and climate change.
Just because little things might not solve big things doesnt mean we shouldn't do the little things.
And I'm saying I've been doing the little things and it doesn't seem to be working
You will not like this answer but it's because change is usually small and not visible. The people you were nice to will not remember the small things you did, but they will remember the happiness, and associate it with that, and then they eventually pay it forward. But it needs a lot of small nice actions by a lot of people to make people pick up on it and pay it forward, and it's probably completely opaque to you.
What I'm saying is if you wanna see these small things making a difference, you're gonna be disappointed. So instead, be selfish, do it because you want to, and for no other reason.
Yes I have already arrived at the conclusion that I'm on a planet ruled by psychotic apes and that I have no real agency beyond saying "Fuck you, I do what I want" which is to be nice because honestly it makes dealing with the apes more efficient.
Well, have you tried it yet? Be patient. Kindness and courtesy is everything!
I've been doing it my entire life because I was raised right.
I think the more fundamental issue, and something we often forget to highlight with these tech bro shitstains, is how many of them are wholly convinced that with enough money they can just live forever.
how many of them are wholly convinced that with enough money they can just live forever.
Sometimes i feel like the entire difference between well-adjusted people and the people you describe in your comment comes down to whether their parents exposed them to enough stories growing up.
Did we not all experience the same fables, nursery rhymes and TV shows that cohesively teach you not to crave immortality and endless power? Not to sacrifice friends for wealth? They must've been getting early-start skiing lessons or practicing horse riding instead.
Probably they haven't grown up.
This is what got us into this mess in the first place
They want to leave a world that only their children will control
It might be the primary and only responsibility of being human.