Everything is connected. Everything and everyone are merely shards of the same universe. And that is exactly the point. By my parents, I and my brother are one.

Everything is connected. Everything and everyone are merely shards of the same universe. And that is exactly the point. By my parents, I and my brother are one. By my grand parents, my cousins and uncles and aunts and I. By my ancestors, I am connected to the rest of humanity. And through me, my children will inherit this same connection. And, so, to take care of the world, I must take care of my parents first, and concentrate my resources on my children. The same mindset that creates excessive high taxes for redistribution to everyone else, taken to the extreme, would abandon elderly in elderly homes, prevent children from receiving the love of their parents, take babes from the arms of mothers, and in doing so, tear the fabric of society apart, dissolving the connection between nodes and turning humanity into one giant glob, devoid of uniqueness of individuals, by equalising everything. And the mindset to do that, as hackuser so fervently advocate, at its core, is narcissism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10038933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10038933 The idea that his ideas are all important and others have zero standing, to impose his ideas of how society should be structured on others. I know nothing. I cannot convince him, and I cannot convince you. Are my ideas the only way people can build societies with? 100% no. What's important is for me to leave others to figure out their own humanity. People will find their own way and from your comment I can see you are already most of the way there. As long as I do nothing to meddle in others, there will be no need for me to meddle.