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>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
by 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.