Teach a poor kid to ride a bike, maybe some day he'll own a Rivendell. On 1/15/09, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: > > > On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:13 PM, JoelMatthews wrote: >> On Jan 15, 8:52 am, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: >>> On Jan 15, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Tim McNamara wrote: >>> Suddenly I feel a bit embarrassed by conspicuous over-consumption. >>> What the heck do I need all this stuff for? Three billion people on >>> the planet have no guitars, bicycles or fountain pens- or barely a >>> place to live out of the weather or enough food. About half of the >>> Earth's population lives on $3 a day or less, according to the CIA >>> fact book. I can sometimes make as much in a week as many people >>> make in a year. Wow. Now I've talked my way up from embarrassment >>> to guilt. >> >> At risk of topic drift, I am kind of curious how you want to work this >> out. > > Most of the time I just ignore it as best I can, but I do often find > myself in my basement in the bike room, looking around and thinking > to myself "dang, I am a lucky guy." I've got three great bikes- none > perfect, each quirky and all of them make me happy as a bee in a > flower when I'm out riding them. Sometimes I am in a quandary as to > which one to ride, and I think "gee, what a terrible problem to have." > > But I do find myself, when I let myself think about it, increasingly > uncomfortable with how I live compared to half of the planet's living > conditions. In America I am barely middle-middle class. From the > whole-world perspective, I'm ridiculously wealthy. There's some > cognitive dissonance there. And as I mentioned in the thread about > Rivendell having a lovely copper colored Legolas in my size.... > aaarrrgggghhhh! Bicycle Acquisition Syndrome rears its head. > > I wish I knew a solution that would actually work. > > > >
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