It's a tragedy that information is transferable, but experience is not.
I've always thought the best thing that could happen to a person is to absolutely lose their shirt at some point in their adult life. We prefer success, but understand through failure.
There is nothing you can tell those who have never lost what that feels like. I don't think they pretend to not care so much as it's invisible to them.
Years ago I took a vacation to an upscale overseas resort built in a relatively poor country. I was sitting by the pool where we were enjoying tropical drinks, splashing, laughing and eating far too much. Just across the metal fence from the pool were the natives who were clearly living a very different reality. I'm sure all the people by the pool were looking at other people by the pool and feeling comparatively impoverished more than they were looking outside the fence and feeling successful.
It's not that the people don't care, it's that they are looking elsewhere and lack the life experience needed to process what they are not looking at and even if they did look, then what? In the case of the homeless here at home who can no longer be hidden the solution is primarily Potemkin village police sweeps. For those a few rungs further up the ladder, it was subprime loans in 2008 and gig jobs ever since.
It's a tragedy that information is transferable, but experience is not.
I've always thought the best thing that could happen to a person is to absolutely lose their shirt at some point in their adult life. We prefer success, but understand through failure.
There is nothing you can tell those who have never lost what that feels like. I don't think they pretend to not care so much as it's invisible to them.
Years ago I took a vacation to an upscale overseas resort built in a relatively poor country. I was sitting by the pool where we were enjoying tropical drinks, splashing, laughing and eating far too much. Just across the metal fence from the pool were the natives who were clearly living a very different reality. I'm sure all the people by the pool were looking at other people by the pool and feeling comparatively impoverished more than they were looking outside the fence and feeling successful.
It's not that the people don't care, it's that they are looking elsewhere and lack the life experience needed to process what they are not looking at and even if they did look, then what? In the case of the homeless here at home who can no longer be hidden the solution is primarily Potemkin village police sweeps. For those a few rungs further up the ladder, it was subprime loans in 2008 and gig jobs ever since.
good analysis