this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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Most of us like to believe that they have earned what they have but instead we're all fragile burdens on society who contribute nothing at all so we cling to spaces where we can be intellectually superior amongst a group of our currently selected peers to justify our parasitic existence. A lot of kind people gave us everything we have and we do not acknowledge them and we fail them everyday.
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I don't think that's what they meant by "earned". I think they mean earn like in a survival sense, like in caveman times I "earn" my meal by killing the deer out in the woods, taking it back home, and cooking it.
This seems needlessly pessimistic. For one thing, sharing and giving resources is innate in humans, we have to have that instinct to at least raise our young and the instinct obviously extends further than that. For another thing, we may be given a lot but if someone produces excess (and in our society we have the ability to produce an abundance of a lot of things) what else are they to do with the excess? Especially if everyone around them is giving their excess away too.