I'd like to have a serious answer on this, please. I think it would be most interesting to know your most valuable piece of information in life.

What would that be, that you could pass on to others, perhaps? What has been the most valuable thing you know, in your life?

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SW-User

That helping other people is called socialism and will ruin the world. Capitalism and being as greedy and selfish as possible is holy and just and the right way to live. Let the top 1% line their own pockets as much as they like and kick the scraps down to us to fight over while struggle to make ends meet. Anything else is socialism. If you can't contribute to the capitalist economy, you are vermin and should be exterminated.

helenS · 36-40, F

@SW-User The crazy thing is, that's just how Ayn Rand saw the world (apart from the last statement). Her influence on modern free-market ideologies is huge.

LadyGrace ·

@SW-User I appreciate you sharing your thoughts. It is hard for me to relate to that because I have never experienced that. I understand what you're saying, and I believe your experience. Some people can be cold and calculated, as you have said, people only thinking of themselves, for sure. However I believe there's a flipside to that coin. I just have not experienced that in my own life. That is a very cold and hard way to live.

In my experience, happiness does not find me. It is created by me. I choose my environment, the people I wish to hang around with, and find helping people, to be a real blessing. I find that makes me happier than doing things for my own self or just thinking only of myself, as I believe in helping and loving others and I have found that offering is reciprocated. I am so sorry that life is hard for you. I would love to see you much happier and cared about. 💖

SW-User

@LadyGrace My life? I wasn't talking about myself. How selfish would that rant hsve been if I was! It seems you missed the point quite dramatically. I have eyes and ears. I was talking about everyone else, the world we live in.

LadyGrace ·

@SW-User Oh, I am so sorry. I definitely did misunderstand you but I don't think it would have been selfish to share what your life was like, if it had been true. However, now I see your point. Thank you for explaining that to me. Yes this world in general is quite cold and selfish, you are right. Only out for itself, for sure and we are dispensable.