A conversation I had with my aunt focusing around money and how the government uses it came up with the following lines:
Me: For a while this country managed to make everything cheap, toys, travel, and food.
Her: It time to have to pay for it and your generation will have to pay for it.
Now normally I try to avoid issues of "Fair" because I agree with Scar from the Lion King as he talks to a helpless mouse.
"Life's not fair is it? You see I will never get to be king, and you, you will never get to see the light of another day."
Now the fact that I've memorized most of the Lion king isn't the point here. But people thinking that I'll pay for their mistakes. That will not do. I've got enough of my own mistakes to pay for before I have to start paying for the mistakes of another. Not that it doesn't happen already. I can't help that I live everyday depending on the work of others right or wrong that they are. But if I'm to pay for a mistake that you made you'd better bet that you'll be right there in the mud with me.
On a similar note, I've always wanted to have a transformative experience. One that made me into an entirely different person than I am. Or rather an experience that made my virtues shine more and my failings less apparent. It seems like a movie trope that someone could see the light of reason and change immediately.
Mostly I say this because it seems obvious to me sometimes on how to solve other people's problems and not so obvious to them on how to solve mine. Of course my solutions to other peoples problems involve them doing something that they have a hard time trying to stomach. So they don't do it and seem to get along just fine having completely ignored me. Which means I probably didn't have the answer after all.
Anyway I don't want you to get the idea that I'm against paying for others. People have paid for me in the past and continue to do so. But I want to pay for improvements, not for detriments.
