Why is it that some ppl have to suffer so much while others have it made, without having done anything to deserve it? Some ppl win the birth lotto- 99% of your life is determined by who you’re born to and where. Who your parents are and how much wealth they have (or not) 100% determines your fate. If you were born in Africa, you’d be screwed (yes i know, not all parts of Africa are bad off). If your parents were selfish assholes and never treated you well since a baby, well, you’re in for a lifetime of mental issues/depression/trauma, etc.
The concept of “karma” or you were bad in your previous life and hence your reincarnated self has to suffer- is utter bullshit. It’s something the wealthy made up so that us poor peasants will swallow that nonsense and not rise up and revolt
There is no such thing as karma bc if that were the case, you’re telling me that all the starving in children in Africa (or India or N. Korea or name any other 3rd world or war torn country) all deserve it. That they were all evil in their past life and hence they all deserve what they’re getting? That’s essentially what the concept of reincarnation is.
Anyhow, back to the original question- why do some of us have to get screwed and lose the “life lotto”? If we were born into poverty, or with parents who neglected us and didn’t care for us, we grow up with lifelong scars and traumas. Why do we have to suffer so much? Literally our entire lives?
Yeah yeah, “life isn’t fair,” but why shouldn’t it? Why is everyone OK living in a world where some ppl live in abject poverty? Where some children are abused or neglected or starved or raped? Why is society OK with it? Those who wake up not caring about anyone else but themselves- are perfectly fine in a world where “life isn’t fair”- so long as they get the long end of the stick.
Does the world the way it is, NOT bother ppl? It’s incredible to me how it DOESN’T affect more ppl or elicit more empathy than “oh well, that’s just life” or “well life isn’t fair” and “it is what it is.”
Anyhow, fuck this thing called life. I’m tired of life’s injustices and bullshit.
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Sadly ED, there is a simple answer to this and maybe a not so simple solution.
People seek pleasure at the expense of everything else. They want to have sex and “damn the consequences.”
Later they end up having babies and try to make the best of their situations. Sometimes women have babies to trap a man, sometimes men get girls pregnant because it’s a competition.
Sometimes people in poorer countries have kids to help them survive, work a farm or get jobs to support the parents.
Most of the time people have children for selfish reasons or they were mistakes. So then the kids grow up in poverty or terrible circumstances, hating their existence and wanting out.
They might turn to crime and cause problems for others until they’re thrown in jail.
We’re just scratching the surface on this topic…but ya I’m with you. People who are poor/broke, scraping by should not have children.
The solution would be to sterilize these stupid people so they don’t bring kids into this world who suffer….but who’s going to allow the state to do that to them?
It would work…if only middle-class and rich people had kids the poor would disappear. Now the problem is who’s going to do those needful crappy jobs like working at a McDonalds, being cleaners, etc.
In time robots will probably do all the menial jobs but for now it’s the poor that are stuck doing them.
Ofc we all wish we were born into rich families, never having to work…have a cushy life…but there you go.
I think it’s all the more important to have euthanasia available to someone at nearly any age where people are able to assess their life and decide if they want out or not.
Another option is to pay people a fair wage on the lowest rungs to bring them up to the rest of society that’s doing well.
There are some aholes who claim it’ll cause hyper-inflation and goods will get more expensive…I don’t buy that and Switzerland is one example that’s managed to pull it off.
If we all made say $70k or more…where we could afford a house/car, vacation, etc…it’d make life easier and maybe worth living.
A strange thing happens when you cross that 50 yr old mark as I have…life starts to lose it’s value and it takes effort to keep going.
I mean one can lose interest in life at any time and I’ve been on/off feeling suicidal since my teens…but since I crossed this threshold, I really don’t care to keep going.
But like most of us, I’m stuck. Partly because I can’t let some people down and also because there’s just no easy way out.
However one feels less compelled as one gets older. In your 40s you feel you’re still someone young and maybe can cobble together an ok life if you work hard…but if you’re still getting nowhere by 50, then you just want to ‘throw in the towel.’