Originally Posted by
Insidious
100% get where you're coming from miller. Also echo the "not saying it to say how great I am". I live with my folks at present - they're happy to have me around, I'm happy to be there as we are a brilliant family, I can save more money by living at Home for the future in terms of a House purchase or a safety net in an unpredictable World. Because of my circumstances, when I had to stop working, I figured "I'm in a more fortuitous position than most, won't bother with furlough" because my rationale (I know I have no actual control over where the money goes, but still) was that the NHS needed the money more than I do. The 2 or 3 people I told about this thought I was mad, but I didn't feel right taking it when I was, comparative to those with kids and/or pressing rental bills, quite "comfortable".
Why anyone needs a certain amount of money (billionaires shouldn't exist, really) is beyond me. Saying that, I'm sure there are a rare few who get there with good intentions. I know if I raked in absolutely mega-bucks my first thoughts would be buying up land to turn it into Nature reserves that weren't allowed more Housing on them etc, buying parts of areas of deforestation-affected land in Borneo and the Amazon to "re-wild" them, funding Mental Health programs, renewable energy programs, improving fostering schemes and so on and so forth, but I imagine (I'm aware I'm probably coming off altruistic here) that is a minority stance and that more billionaires than not are oriented towards "I wanna be richer than the guy I envy" type feelings, which, if true, is a sad indictment of the competitive insecurities of Human Nature.
It's sad stuff.
If the whole world took to planting trees instead of urbanization .
Look at England and ask where are the trees and forests compared to 50 or 60 years ago, before the world starts preaching(Macron) to Brazil and the Amazon.
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