Maybe my cringe at this is reflexive 'It's always more complicated'?
Spotted on Twitter: RT if you would absolutely, in a heartbeat, give up your savings/discretionary income/wealth if it meant you would solve/end world hunger and poverty.
I dunno: this sounds to me a bit like the 'if you could do [desirable thing] by pressing a button which would kill a complete stranger a long way away from you, would you?' thought experiment, except it is you yourself who is supposed to be the sacrifice -
And I cannot help asking: is the solution going to be immediate? because if not, I am going to need something to live on in the interim, right?
(I think this was in the context of people ragging on A Certain Billionaire who has More Dosh than anyone could reasonably use for their own purposes.)
And it also strikes me as very much in that all or nothing mode of people who come along and when one is doing something harmlessly pleasurable if maybe a bit silly online wonder why one is not doing Something Worthy For The Benefit Of The World instead...
When, you know, one may have been doing that and needing a break?
I remember (can't find it now but I thought I posted about it) snarking at an ad suggesting that researchers seeking out the cure for some disease never hung up their lab coats: really one would rather they got a decent night's sleep (and washed the lab coats occasionally).
Magical thinking...
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