09/02/2014
Just thinking as I read yet another debate about benefits for the poor and how the wealthy often disparage the needy as lazy etc. now I'm no economist, but I can ask questions about what I'd like to know.
Like don't the wealthy get benefits?
Aren't they often guests at parties with more than enough food because they're wealthy. Don't they get tons of freebies? Tickets, jewelry, clothes, product? Vacations? Inside lines on lucrative deals? Ability to buy selves out of sticky situations?
What if celebrities and wealthy folk asked benefit givers to translate their gift into retail value cash and then donated it to, say, the disabled on benefits, or the elderly living in poverty or so on.
This is not to disparage the wealthy or celebrities because they do contribute their gifts and talents and skills and champion causes etc.
but let's think about that they do it because they can for a variety of reasons and they deserve reward for their successes.
So let's define success a bit.
Getting up in the morning when you're so weighted with depression that you figure the only reason to get up is to figure out how to exit your pain without hurting the people you love. This person deserves benefits for their courage.
Raising children who don't deserve to be hungry or ashamed because their parent/s were hungry and ashamed who's parent/s were hungry and shamed etc.... S/he deserves some kind of motivation to better her life so that she can better her children's lives. Too simplistic, I know but it doesn't hurt to think about what you'd want if you were in that place.
Think I'll leave it there. Just thinking.
