brickcitymang

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by brickcitymang 8y ago
If poverty exists in a world where resources are plenty for everyone, the root cause is selfishness. Our inability to love others like we love ourselves.
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by brickcitymang 8y ago
apatters, a discussion on the internet doesn't need solutions. If we loved everyone like we love ourselves, we would not let people go hungry, or suffer. I believe few people have achieved this level of transcendence, and it starts wit
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by brickcitymang 8y ago
And I don't deny this nature in myself
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by brickcitymang 8y ago
Human greed lol or they're poor and nobody wants to help them because they're too busy covering their own asses. Basically there's enough resources in the world for nobody to live in poverty. It doesn't work because nobo
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by brickcitymang 8y ago
Poverty itself can be caused by many things. But poverty in the most powerful country on Earth is not for a lack of resources.
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by brickcitymang 8y ago
Totally agreed. In Korea there's a saying that a person is transformed by the position placed upon him. Title, perceived position, can change a person's behavior. I've been one of those people that scoffed at importance of ti
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by brickcitymang 8y ago
Poverty in America is a result of American capitalism, at a very high level. At a very very high level, it is caused by human greed, and a lack of love for our neighbors. We can talk about wages and employment rates, and race all day long,
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by brickcitymang 8y ago
Telling yourself that you have it better than 99% of the world is only a temporary and ineffective remedy to career dissatisfaction. The answer is introspection, finding out what is missing, and the life-long pursuit of self-actualization a
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by brickcitymang 8y ago
I wish one day I report to a female boss.