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Parent Post: If 50 % of the population tried this each year, we would have a healthier world
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saarnok
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8/29/2026, 2:59:57 AM
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There's a tragedy to helping people that can perhaps only really be experienced when you have children. Helping someone takes the pressure off them. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times that helping someone actually resulted in them improving their lives. I could still do it if that hand had been involved in a tragic accident leaving me with only one finger. I know a guy who commonly loads up a trailer load of staple foods to give to his workers, which they greatly appreciate; but it keeps them from rising above their circumstances. He can buy bulk foods for prices that seem impossible to ordinary shoppers, and while they wouldn't look at him nearly as favorably, he'd be doing them a far greater service to sell it to them cheaply, but at a price that at least compensated him. I grow a big garden. One of my greatest challenges is giving away the food I produce to people who are both "poor" and ordering "uber eats" from McDonald's or some such. But, something changes when people get enough gumption to grow a tree or berry bush or virtually anything that produces good food. Suddenly they want to share it with the world. No. Not all of them. Serenity is on the right track though. One person at a time, the world can change. It always has. It always will. My grandparents had virtually nothing. They built virtually everything. They weren't unhappy. Today's people built virtually nothing. They're dissatisfied with virtually everything. Growing your own food, even just a part of it, even just a trivial part of it, is actually accomplishing something. And that's what's missing from most people's lives.
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babyvaso
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8/29/2026, 3:59:06 AM
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When people reference the past they often forget, as well as you, that there were incentives to building a home with your own hands, you were not regulated to dea-h as thus, you had the freedom to build what you wanted at low risk to yourself. For example, you can build a barndominium or a tiny house for extremely cheap compared to a standard home, but their value is nonexistent in the housing market making them unattractive as assets. If you could appraise a barndominium and tiny home at the rates of standard homes then 10x more would have them.
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