I too have found it is much easier to be generous and compassionate when it's very clear I'm not sacrificing my own survival or my fulfillment to be so.
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Joseph
Truthfulness, compassion, tolerance.
For many of us money vs labor is a false dichotomy. I only have money because of my labor. The value of my unskilled labor is very low. Let's take Habitat for Humanity. When I'm carrying wood or maybe running a nail gun, I'm displacing paid labor that might make $10-20/hr. So after spending the day volunteering the value of my contribution is around $100. But if I work at my skilled job and make $1000 for the day and donate that $1000 to HFH, that's somehow bad because I have used money as a medium to convert my skilled labor into housing assistance for the poor in a more valuable way than I could have directly? Money is just a vessel for flexible allocation of the value of your labor. I don't see how hewing to an inefficient exchange model is morally superior.
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