100k denars! It took about 20 Naruto episodes but I did it! But my M&B world sucks now. I can't find Butter ANYWHERE! I think the Caldarian economy has gone down the drain without my help and all that constant warring is screwing up the trade routes.
Butter has always been the rarest food in the game for me and now it's completely absent in towns. Looks bad. I think I should start to actually play the game instead of just moving around buying and selling. I'll keep the peace and make sure the farmers can bring their products to the towns for sale.
Now that I have 100k, yea I'll do that. But I'm only at episode 145 for Naruto Shippuden, another 15 episodes to go (latest episode isn't available for free at CrunchyRoll).
2.6 billion people in the world do not have water piped to their homes. That's over 500 Singapores. For their sake, I shall use as much water as I can so that their sacrifice is not in vain.
It's a sad fact that the people who need clean water the most are also the ones who have to pay the highest price. When you have a good clean river next to your home, water is cheap and you don't need more water. But when you're in a desert and the closest source of water is a muddy brine a few kilometres underground, water is bound to be insanely expensive.
How does one solve that?
Again, as I always have, I suggest providing the poor with free condoms. Now, I'll add 10-year subscriptions to World of Warcraft and subsidized abortions to the list. I don't support genocide but I do very much support family planning.
I'd even suggest free sterilization for the poor if I thought it could be affordable enough for the charity organizations.
I agree that everyone has the right to live their lives, but it's irresponsible to bring your child to the world only to force him/her to live a shitty life till he/she dies at 40 from dysentry. It's much more merciful if the child was never born, am I not right?
I may have thrown in tasteless jokes in this rant, but the message is serious. Think of all those millions of children out there looking forward to a life of hopeless poverty. Spending 8 hours everyday to collect and carry back home uphill 45kg of water can't be anything but hardship.
It's pretty fucked up when I read about this and recalled images like these:
Once during my army days I escorted these chefs and waiters from some 5-star hotel restaurant who were hired to cook a meal for some special foreign VVIPs. Grilled fish, sharks fins, crepes, etc. I had to watch them work to make sure they didn't wander off the more sensitive areas of the building, so I had the opportunity to see what the waiters threw away after the meal was over.
Entire dishes of perfectly cooked food by experienced chefs, practically untouched, were dumped straight into the trash bags! Evidently, some of the guests didn't even lift a fork!
And then you have starving children like these:
who probably think that walking 15mins to school with a 2kg bag is hard work.
Half the children in the world live in poverty. Half the children in the world have nothing to look forward to in their future except to work like slaves and die paupers.
For every healthy child you see, for every healthy child you meet, for every healthy child you know, there's probably one living under a straw roof drinking raw mud water.
Saving each one manually via community service and volunteer work is not the solution. That's basically just giving the poor man a fish. Anyone can do that. Everyone is doing that. I can run bots for freerice.com whenever my computer is online and donate a million grains of rice a day.
No, they require something more permanent. They need to be taught to fish. Unfortunately developed nations will lose a cheap source of resources (eg oil, gold, diamonds). A fragmented people is easily exploited (see Qing Dynasty), hence it's to our benefit to keep them hating each other.
I'm not going anywhere with this. Just saying that the poor will remain poor if you want to maintain your present lifestyle. Life isn't fair in this sense, never was, probably never will be. Do all the good you like, but you're still not helping those who really need it. Until you can unite the African tribes and cure idiocy, nothing you do is actually helping.
Yes, keep feeding the poor man with the fish everyday and tell yourselves you're doing right. When he spawns 10 more hungry children with life expectancies of 30-40 years that will end in painful deaths, keep telling yourselves it's not a problem but a blessing to the world.
I say either work towards a more permanent solution or divert our increasingly precious resources to protecting our cities and bread baskets from the inevitable climate changes. Protect our water, protect our food, protect our shelters. Keeping a larger amount of emergency funds is always a good option.
What if I'm one of them, you may ask. The "what if" game should never, ever be used in this manner. It is best used for disaster prevention, not for making people feel guilty about imaginary matters. Well, I'm not one of the poor and I'm not about to spend money and computer power on hungry people who will do nothing but breed more hungry people who do nothing but breed even more hungry people.
I prefer to run Folding@Home to Free Rice bots.
How much money has been spent over the decades on food aids? How many people did these help bring to the world? How many of these won any Nobel Prize? How many made any "World's First" achievement other than the "World's First People To Commit Genocide Without Having The World Missing A Beat" prize?
There you see millions of people crying for just a drink of water. Boys with bloated bellies and flies in their eyes. Women who get beaten for cutting a queue for a running tap. They will die and it's going to be just another day in the slums. Burial is a simple dump-the-body-in-a-pit ritual. Nobody remembers; three generations down and such a person never walked the earth.
And who brought these people into this world? People who live as nothing and die for nothing. People whose greatest concern is whether they have water tomorrow. Who gave them the opportunity to exist?
It is a far greater mercy to provide them with free sterilization and contraceptives.
For every chicken they can't eat, I'll eat three. Thanks for not being there to eat them.
Just because you feel great to be alive doesn't mean everyone is going to be happy to live. Some people never do. They just crawl out of a vagina one day, feel hungry all their short, pointless lives and die crying. Better if their parents had starved to death.
Better if they were never born.
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