The latter part is a nice sentiment on its own, obviously if you are secure it's good to take care of others. But this manifested in shitty attitudes toward social programs and a philosophy that wanted the poor to rely on the "generosity" of the wealthy
I went to a mostly-moneyed Catholic school in a community largely run by very wealthy people and I very keenly remember being taught that social programs were bad and it was up to those who have been blessed with more to be "selfless" and givehttps://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1034114114983997440 …
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And for us as kids, "generosity" usually stopped at "bring a can of food for a food drive" where that can was always like the shitty beans you had in the back of your cabinet, and you got rewarded with extra recess or a jeans day or something
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Even as an adult while I was still Catholic, we did that "financial peace university" thing. Our goal was (and still is) to get the fuck out of debt and like, have some basic security. The purported goal of the entire class, however, was to "become wealthy so you can give"
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Anyway I don't know where I'm going with this except to say that the older I get, and funnily enough the less religious I get, the more I understand the camel through the eye of the needle parable.
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