Liesje
Blue Crack Addict
Angela Harlem said:Economic inequality is worse in many western countries. As for the comfortable "normal" standard of living, is it really what we claim it to be? How many of us, or in the US cannot afford health care? The cost of education is killing young people and the families who are trying to support their kids. We live in a credit card 'interest free period' world and most of us struggle daily, weekly, monthly. How many of us will pay off a mortgage in our lifetimes? How many of us can envision the day we even get a mortgage? We're choking on our own flashy excess, yes, but we're also relatively fucked, comparatively, and not exactly living in ideal conditions others should strive for. I think the way many of us live is ridiculous - which then makes how some others live just criminal.
I agree. Lately I feel like my happiness is completely superficial. Yes, I have a nice apartment and we have a car to share and two pets, but I would trade it all in a second if I could afford to fix one of the many health problems that are painful on a daily basis and not be drowning in debt already by age 17 and worrying for my parents because of the mortgage and cost of sibs high school education. And then compared to how the majority of the world lives...I can't even begin to sort it out in my head....