No breakfast is complete without coffee and potato chips.

I eat more before 5 am then most people eat all day.

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about our society and its extreme individualism. I consider myself an egalitarian. More and more I find the lack of equality among people disheartening, now I know there is always prejudice and bigotry.  I know that there are the haves and the have not’s. I know that there are those who are lazy and those who work hard. What I find currently most unappealing is the fact that money has become equated to the right to devour more resources than someone else merely because of the fact that one person has the money to do so. Furthermore, it is the willingness of the populace of those who have money to regularly exercise this right, with no regards for the consequences of their actions.

I do not understand why a unit of exchange such as money gives someone the right to consume more and often the right to waste resources needlessly than another person. Recently, I have heard this statement: “I earned the money; therefore I will spend it how I want.” I think about this statement and it troubles me.  In the behavior I have observed it does not matter how a person attains money, but if it is disposable income it has become freedom, it has become the right to procure more than your share. I find this socially irresponsible.

It is selfishness and it is favoring you over another.  I agree that it is in our nature to consume more than one another, but I believe that there is a marginal curve beyond what we need to survive and that includes little luxuries. I also agree that we live in a consumption based economy and if we do not consume we do not have a robust economy. These are surface issues to me, they are external factors.  The real issue to me is deep within oneself.

Why is it that a person feels that they have the right to more resources just because they earn more money? I feel that person believes they are special and more important than anyone else, if this is not the case, then why the behavior? It is a disregard for others and their way of life.

Luck, it is the way it is because that is the way it is. I was born into a well to do family; my life was already hedged for better. Sure life is unfair, but we all live in the same system, no one lives in a vacuum in this society. You consume more than you share, you take away from someone else.  If it is a price you are willing to live with, then it is a price for someone else to live without.