Posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 20:57:02
In reply to Re: exponential population growth, posted by alexandra_k on September 19, 2020, at 20:17:02
I feel ambivalent about my sister.
Sometimes (most-times) I see her as a person who is genuinely warm and kind and compassionate with generosity of spirit.
Othertimes I catch glimpses of... Greed... And of exploitation. Of exploitation of others to meet that.
Not so much in her own interactions... She has worked hard...
She left school early and managed to get an entry level job typing at a law firm.
She's worked for law firms ever since in various secretarial capacities.
She has worked for really top firms.
I think maybe part of what they like is that she's a reliable worker and she doesn't appear to have much in the way of personal ambition...
I mean... She could have pushed for support or time off so she could go to law school herself...
But she didn't. She did her job. Quite well, by all accounts.
So... Years and years and years and years later she has had various pay increases over the years (and lots of extra gifts apparently from 'clients' of game tickets and so on and lunches and dinners and so on...) Office parties.. Working in nice offices... A nice job. A good job.But her kids... Seem nice...
They had inheritance. A pay-out from the health system for wrongful death of mis-diagnosed cancer in father...
So they invested in property...
So the kids make their living off of tenants.
And there's the odd thing... About the kids sort of making their living off of their tenants... The tenants pay them rent and the kids eat from the rent payments from the tenants.
It's an exploitative system where the landlords are 'elite' and the 'friendships' of the 'flatmates' are exploitative and filled with resentments... An oppressive undertone... People living in superficially (only) nice houses... People living in supposedly wealthy areas... Masses of them huddling together in cold and dark regions of houses...
Million dollar mansion type houses with a superficially nice facade...
And the owners taking the best room... Maybe even the best section of the house. If there's multiple bathrooms or whatever. Maybe taking a living room and a bathroom and the kitchen... Whatever... THen renting out rooms only and the mortage payments (or the living expenses of the landlords) are supplied by the tenants. The tenants who are not really protected by tenancy laws...
The 'landlords' who can barge in on the tenants whenever they want...
Who set the laws or evict them...
It's not a very nice or pleasant thing....
But people are making their fortunes...And I see aspects of greed... She's struggled with her weight... Overeating...
But I guess I just mean to say I see it... It's potential... It's damage.. It's harm.. As a vice. As a sin.I understand it's a reaction. Reaction formation. A response to my mother. When things go well my sister exemplifies graciousness and generosity of spirit. There is a genuine beneficience or altruism there. I remind myself to really notice that. Apparecitate that. Take care not to exploit it or take advantage of it. Because that's not the kind of person that I want to be...
But I worry about the elements of exploitation and greed...
Making money driving things around in trucks... The ever increasing more financial profits and more financial profits and more financial profits and thinking about how many corners you are willing to cut...
And I know and understand that it's a struggle because of growing up with nothing.
But the concerns about reaction formation to... Opposing vice...And it frightens me.
I need good role models to emulate. I don't see them, here.
There is some stuff on Khan Academy.
I am afraid.
But it's stuff I learned on Khan Academy.
For free. Or for a donation of $10 per month... Learning about the indentured servants in Washington... ANd being afraid that going to school in the US will be indentured servatude. Perhaps you shouldn't tell them how much money you have incase they choose to burn through you. But then you should invest something in yoru own schooling? BUt then you should have been allowed a paper route and at least some of that should have been saved for college. ANd you shuld have been given jobs. Teaching at University. But jobs aren't publically advertised and they only hire people who PREVENT timely completion of research.
I don't know what's fair.
I guess you just have to go... Of all the things there are in the world...
Where looks like there is genuine growth? Pockets of the world where things are nice and pleasant. Quality output. Genuine art. People who seem to be happy. There are things slaves won't produce. Australasia is seriously deficient precisely because of that.
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