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When my car broke down in the middle of a DoorDash run, I walked to a nearby park and sat next to a homeless guy who was about my age. He was deaf; we talked vi
by jkolio 2y ago
When my car broke down in the middle of a DoorDash run, I walked to a nearby park and sat next to a homeless guy who was about my age. He was deaf; we talked via text on our phones about how we'd ended up on the same bench, and I shared some of my food. I learned from him how resilient someone can be, even under incredibly unfair circumstances, but more importantly, he got something to eat.
It's not all about you.
- programjames 2y agoExactly. It's not all about you. It's best for the community to encourage education, and dragging down students who actually care about education does the opposite.
- jkolio 2y agoYour selfishness is not equal to my desire for common prosperity. If anything, lone wolf-ism is what drags us down (no matter how proficient the wolf thinks he is). We live in a society.
- matrix87 2y ago> lone wolf-ism is what drags us down with respect to what metric? economic growth? that's probably not true, lone wolfism is what drives people to develop expertise in the first place if the metric is community or "sustainability" or something else, is pursuing that metric in the place of economic growth sustainable long term?
- matrix87 2y agoYou and the homeless guy aren't peers, you just did a nice thing. You're not going to classes with him or working alongside him
- jkolio 2y agoI was (and remain) a few bad breaks from his situation. I'm not responsible for his state, but we absolutely are peers (i.e., same age, facing the same broad socioeconomic environment).