The Singer Solution

To receive a gift is a beautiful thing, is it not? Especially when it’s something you really need. So what are the emotions and feelings that come with receiving something like all your basic needs for free? What does it feel like to have everything provided for you? Would that make you want to work? Would having things given to you make you want to get up and change the way you live? Or would you be of the mind to continue as you have, and continue receiving things for free? And then you have those hard workers who do nothing but work for what they have. And the little extra cash they get, they celebrate with. Who would be inclined to give away the money they spent forty-hours a week to earn? What would encourage them to do so? Wouldn’t people be more inclined to maintain their current way of life than to give it all up for the sake of others?

There are always going to be benefits and detriments to anything in life. And although the pros are all really great and seemingly outweigh the cons, the cons are more realistic. Would you willingly give up every luxury you now have, to support someone else with the basic necessities of life? After having known the lifestyle of luxury could you possibly live without it now? Or are you forever tainted by the corruption of luxury? Forever desiring of the “happiness” inspired by it? Isn’t that argument more convincing? Isn’t that life style more comfortable and convenient? You’re a surgeon averaging anywhere from $200,000 to $400,000 dollars a year; What do you spend it on?