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You can't gain empathy when something is temporary. Most of the stress of being poor comes of worry about how to handle long term problems / the fact that life
by ohaideredevs 7y ago
You can't gain empathy when something is temporary. Most of the stress of being poor comes of worry about how to handle long term problems / the fact that life has no point except slaving away. That cannot be replicated without genuinely taking everything away from a person.
- mywittyname 7y agoI disagree, if reading books can increase empathy [0], then I'd expect any activity that forced you to experience the way another person lives would do the same. [0] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/377 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/377
- gremlinsinc 7y agoThey need a show like undercover bosses, but instead the CEO must live on 7.50 for an entire year, and work as their own employee they have 0 access to savings, they cannot use credit either, and they are given 1 suitcase of clothes, a cellphone, laptop, and some feature comforts for their tiny apartment like a 32 inch tv.
- diogenescynic 7y agoI'd pay money to watch Angelo Mozilo go through that.
- c0vfefe 7y ago30 Days Season 1 Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSGEGOVI34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmSGEGOVI34
- diogenescynic 7y ago>You can't gain empathy when something is temporary. Most of the stress of being poor comes of worry about how to handle long term problems This was a really insightful comment. I had never thought about it that articulately, but yeah if you are only dealing with stress temporarily, you can't even comprehend what it's like to deal with that FOREVER. It's just an impossible concept to grasp for someone who has that level of a safety net.