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Every luxury you bought could have fed a poor starving family in India for months, maybe even years or decades. It could have funded live saving medical treatme
by lumberjack 11y ago
Every luxury you bought could have fed a poor starving family in India for months, maybe even years or decades. It could have funded live saving medical treatment for many people who could not afford it. And yet you chose to buy that iPhone6 or BMW or the bigger house. That's monstrous.
You're not morally superior to any of us first worlders. We enjoy our privilege.
- jsprogrammer 11y ago>Every luxury you bought could have fed a poor starving family in India for months, maybe even years or decades. >And yet you chose to buy that iPhone6 or BMW or the bigger house. What? How can an iPhone6 be transformed into food in India? Edit; WTF? A comment two above me got [flagged] and removed? I thought we were trying to have a conversation here.
- toomuchtodo 11y agoYou don't buy the iPhone, and you instead donate those funds to an NGO that buys food in third world countries. It's pretty simple actually.
- zardo 11y agoYou are familiar with the concept of exchanging goods for money? Money that is used to buy luxuries for one person, could have been used to buy necessities for another.
- jsprogrammer 11y ago>You are familiar with the concept of exchanging goods for money? I am. Are you familiar with the concepts of agriculture, animal husbandry, and manufacture of electronics? >Money that is used to buy luxuries for one person, could have been used to buy necessities for another. Goods and money are not fully fungible.
- tzs 11y agoI don't see how that is relevant to the comment you are replying to. His complaint is that he thought someone was saying that the people in need deserve what is happening to them and so should not be helped.
- zzalpha 11y agoWell I see at least someone got it...