[green_man_lives]

Your sense of injustice, while not unwarranted, is misplaced. Both the person in the article and your father are the victims of unfair systems. Poverty exists in the first and third world. I think that, hypothetically, if you wanted to engineer a world in which everyone was taken care of, empathy and a sense of solidarity would be the foundation of it. It's not productive to point to someone worse off.

I think the author should have tried to improve their situation a bit more given that they lived in a prosperous time and place. But regardless they worked every single day and contributed to society. Is that not enough to at least be ensured a comfortable death?

[ChatGTP]

Especially considering no one actually owns the earth, not Jeff Bezos, not anyone, yet almost every single bit of wealth (significant wealth) was generated from it's exploitation. through mining and pollution, and will continue to do so. Where do we think the bots and EVs will come from? Our ass?

Therefore, realistically, everyone is entitled to a piece of wealth, whether you like this truth or not, given a significantly more intelligent way of seeing things, this would be the only conclusion that can be made.

But we've drawn borders and set up law enforcement to protect the ridiculous wealth inequality that seems like it will never end.