brickcitymang

If poverty exists in a world where resources are plenty for everyone, the root cause is selfishness. Our inability to love others like we love ourselves.

apatters, a discussion on the internet doesn't need solutions. If we loved everyone like we love ourselves, we would not let people go hungry, or suffer. I believe few people have achieved this level of transcendence, and it starts with knowing yourself. If somehow I could write a comment over the internet that can make you do some self-reflection I would. But I don't know what that comment is.

And I don't deny this nature in myself

Human greed lol or they're poor and nobody wants to help them because they're too busy covering their own asses. Basically there's enough resources in the world for nobody to live in poverty. It doesn't work because nobody's willing to make it work, which is just human nature of selfishness.

Poverty itself can be caused by many things. But poverty in the most powerful country on Earth is not for a lack of resources.

Totally agreed. In Korea there's a saying that a person is transformed by the position placed upon him. Title, perceived position, can change a person's behavior.

I've been one of those people that scoffed at importance of titles and labels. Confidence comes from within I would say (which is largely true). But I've since realized the power of a title, similar to the OP. Now I have the opinion that people who similarly scoff at importance of titles have just not been enlightened, or lack introspection into their own behaviors.

Poverty in America is a result of American capitalism, at a very high level. At a very very high level, it is caused by human greed, and a lack of love for our neighbors.

We can talk about wages and employment rates, and race all day long, but those are just details. It's human greed in the end, and our inability to love others like we love ourselves.

Telling yourself that you have it better than 99% of the world is only a temporary and ineffective remedy to career dissatisfaction. The answer is introspection, finding out what is missing, and the life-long pursuit of self-actualization and eventually transcendence.

I wish one day I report to a female boss.