I have a new job serving popcorn had to Minnesota movie theater.
I want to tell you the contrast of how different families live.
Well I was working, and Asian American family came in with five kids. They ordered a regular size popcorn for the entire family. The kids were asking the parents for pop but the parents were saying no, we already spent enough.
Shortly after, two Somali woman came in with a total of 20 children! Literally 20! They then bought each of those 20 kids their own combo pack which includes a popcorn and a soft drink. These combo packs cost $13 each!
If you add on the movie tickets, these women must have been spending more than $400 tonight!
Congrats on your new job! A thought: consider how much you make an hour working this job. Government's going to take 20%ish of it in your income bracket before you ever see it in your paycheck. How many hours would you have to work to buy one of those combos? Obviously, the mark-up on them is extortionate. That mark-up exists to pay your wage, not to buy the popcorn.
The Asian family buys one popcorn to share for their night out at the movies. That's what you do when the money has value. You know you had to work for it, so you weigh the costs accordingly.
The Somali family bought $400 of popcorn and soda for one movie. The money is meaningless to them. It has no value. There's no computation in their mind about how much work it takes to earn that money, because they didn't earn it. It was given to them. So, they spent it on a trivial luxury anyone could easily have done without. Why? Why not? There's plenty more where that came from and it takes no effort for them to get it.
Prosperity is built by people like yourself who do the work and provide real value to people. Even if you're absolutely disgusted by people who seemingly waste money, treat them with proper customer service because that's how you earn yours, and it reflects on your character. But don't be silent about injustice either. Just voice those concerns at an appropriate time to the people who can do something to fix it.
Best wishes, and Happy New Year!
Well said.
Excellent explanation of the difference in mindset. When you work so hard to do something and see someone else get handed the same thing, you just have to understand that you learned the real value of learning a skill, trade, craft, or whatever it is and the other person doesn't understand it. Although you may appear as equals to an outsider, you are truly above the other person in skill.