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Originally posted by Sydney
I agree with you in regards to life's simple pleasures being what makes it so great, but your lifestyle is hardly what most of the world will ever have a chance to experience. My whole point is that a perfect world is only available to a minority, and as long as that minority is satisfied, they'll sit on their arse with a blind eye to a world stricken with poverty.
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That's true, in the present setting, but these circumstances hinge on a very small number of people, comparatively. Remember, in the capitolist world, 90% of the finances are controlled by 5% of the population. Now, I'm not stressing socialism necissarily, but if I can achieve my utopia every friday on an annual income of less than 20,000, below the poverty line here in the staes, then probably so could the super-rich class, and their overflow could go to help those in such bad positions that they can't get out. Which isn't to say the poor should get things just because they're poor. You also have to work for your happiness, ave to be willing to make some sacrifices. So, everybody should just learn to appreciate and enjoy the little things, like the satisfaction of a job well done. If everybody was willing to work as hard as they could, but realized that this is a different quantity for different people, and we all agreed to be honest about how much work we can do and not be lazy... yeah, okay, it's impossible. Oh well, I tried. Ooh, you'll have to excuse me, they're showing Star trek III, and I just remembered there's string cheese in the fridge! Yeeha!