There are some people who never give a thought to what they do for others because they just get on and do things, and not only for family but with a deep sense of community. It is just the way they are. I heard today new lottery winners being asked what they are going to do and it was buy this, and go on holiday there. And there seems nothing wrong with this way of thinking, it is imprinted on us from birth that this is what society is all about – get lucky and spend on yourself.
Is this really the best the capitalist system has to offer us – a series of buyers and consumers? Is a human race with thousands of individuals who want to win the lottery so they can spend the money on feeding starving children and protecting innocent victims of other humans beings, so very hard to imagine? Have we really become no more than myopic, self-serving individuals all fighting each other for goods and services?
But this is where the money society leads us because no one has room to breathe and be anything other than partially or wholly selfish because society will eat them up and spit them out. With no room to be giving how can we ever teach our children to be better than we are? Because hardly any of us would do anything else if we won the lottery.