I have no actual stake in this other than wanting to see my friends and family helped out, but I emphatically 100% agree with this post. By any definition we are in the middle of an emergency, with economic just being one aspect of it. You don't sit on a lifeboat with people drowning around all sides and debate potential future repairs t…
I have no actual stake in this other than wanting to see my friends and family helped out, but I emphatically 100% agree with this post. By any definition we are in the middle of an emergency, with economic just being one aspect of it. You don't sit on a lifeboat with people drowning around all sides and debate potential future repairs to the boat. You pull people on and hope that shit holds. If that requires sacrifice later, then oh well, sometimes things are hard and sometimes they are less hard.
I didn't need that $1200. I would have gladly given up that $1200 if it helped others keep their lights on. I tried to do something better than just pay a little more long term debt with it like making donations and buying friends groceries and such, but still we can't gofundme the entire fucking country. Even starting to think about the cascading effects of that kind of loss of income is horrifying to me. I don't want to live in a rigid divided self absorbed society, and of course, we don't have to. Some things are simple, this is one of those things. This is not zero sum. There are people in the world who would drown everyone before admitting they may have been wrong. Take feedback, let your opinions evolve, learn from your mistake, live another day.
I have no actual stake in this other than wanting to see my friends and family helped out, but I emphatically 100% agree with this post. By any definition we are in the middle of an emergency, with economic just being one aspect of it. You don't sit on a lifeboat with people drowning around all sides and debate potential future repairs to the boat. You pull people on and hope that shit holds. If that requires sacrifice later, then oh well, sometimes things are hard and sometimes they are less hard.
I didn't need that $1200. I would have gladly given up that $1200 if it helped others keep their lights on. I tried to do something better than just pay a little more long term debt with it like making donations and buying friends groceries and such, but still we can't gofundme the entire fucking country. Even starting to think about the cascading effects of that kind of loss of income is horrifying to me. I don't want to live in a rigid divided self absorbed society, and of course, we don't have to. Some things are simple, this is one of those things. This is not zero sum. There are people in the world who would drown everyone before admitting they may have been wrong. Take feedback, let your opinions evolve, learn from your mistake, live another day.