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Empathy and humility are two benefits of living next to neighbors who are way richer or poorer. Here's where I'm glad I'm anonymous here, so this can't be cons
by rubidium 11y ago
Empathy and humility are two benefits of living next to neighbors who are way richer or poorer.
Here's where I'm glad I'm anonymous here, so this can't be construed as bragging but rather adding a different viewpoint: I live in a neighborhood (married with kid) where my income is x4 that of my neighborhood (and I'm making less than the national average salary for a sr. software developer). It's humbling and drives me to find ways to care for those around me.
- Frondo 11y agoHear hear! I live not far from a really, really run-down part of town, with a grocery store that seems to attract the most downtrodden of society. I love shopping there, even though everyone I know has sworn it off, because of how it always reminds me: a lot of people have it much worse off than me, but they are still human and worthy of compassion and respect. I'll shop there even after I've sold my business and have enough pocket money to share, because I never want to lose touch with the non-shiny, fat, missing-limbs, dirt-poor, you name it, humanity that everyone else wants to forget about as quickly as possible.