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"I worked my ass off for this." So did I. But having come up from very poor/working class, I also know that path was painful and I have enough means to live m
by zeruch 3y ago
"I worked my ass off for this."
So did I. But having come up from very poor/working class, I also know that path was painful and I have enough means to live modestly and view that as a way to not be "screw you, I got mine" to the rest of society. And that's not just an empathy overdose. That's knowing even cynically, that if the overall larger number of people in the society around me who get even marginally improved outcomes makes same said society I choose to reside in likely to be more stable, resilient and less interrupt-driven.
That's a system investment instead of just being self-focused to the point of ignoring everything else (the latter eventually leads to 'everything else' imposing its collective will reactively otherwise)