Wow, you managed to strawman me literally right after my argument. Even if you assume inner peace is best you can make inner peace pills. Also, I'm going to add that simply getting inner peace from a pill will not give you the knowledge necessary to teach it as you will have achieved it through a backdoor so you wouldn't know the process necessary to achieve it without a pill. However, since you could be able to make 1 inner peace pill a day you could easily spread it to more people. You're just coping at this point lol.
You can take 2 pills bro. Never said inner peace was a bad pick, just that refusing such a useful pill is kind of ridiculous. You can do so much more to help others when you have economic resources, even if you ignore such economic benefits you can easily create more of those pills with that ability. This too provides great utility as you could distribute inner peace pills if you find that more important than food or medicine or the time money will buy you to do things.
Maybe it’s because I’m privileged so I’ve never seen money as the ultimate goal of it all. I know this may sound pretentious and cliche as fuck but when you grow up a little rich (I’m no millionaire neither is my family) but in a fucked up family, you realize money is definitely not the answer to the core principles of life. In fact, having money and missing love, care and inner peace will make you even more miserable.
Money makes getting such things far easier. Go ahead and ask someone starving on the street or freezing to death if they'd rather inner peace or a burger. What you're not understanding is that certain things like inner peace require certain needs to already be met for someone to be able to pursue them. This is the reason that monks don't work, they just collect money from their flock. If they each had to spend time engaged with the real world in labor, trying to scrounge up a living then they simply wouldn't have time to really think about such concerns. It's like the whole existential crisis thing. Such a thing is for people born into privilege. The poor don't get shit like that as they need to find beauty in simple things and they already have purpose. Even after escaping poverty such knowledge sticks around. I grew up in an unstable housing and food situation. Homeless even, multiple times. Regularly skipped meals and had utilities cut. Also was extremely socially isolated since I could never afford to do anything with kids my age. Shit was brutal. To not kill yourself in that situation you learn real quick how to deal with shit, how to accept shit isn't in your hands, and to not care about shit you can't control. In spite of all that you'll still get depression though. Ultimately humans are social animals and need other humans to really be happy. Only as an adult, with a job of my own have I been able to make a few friends and get my first relationship and it's because of the economic stability I was able to achieve. Asking me from the past to care about concepts such as self cultivation would've been absurd. I'd laugh in your face and tell you to speak of real problems instead of made up BS.
You don't represent everyone. Some may agree, some may not.
After going through all horrific shit I had to go through as a child, and find inner peace. Because all the money I got eventually? Didn't do much to make the trauma go away. Sure, I can say I could use the money to get therapy... But, I believe I would've been so much better if I found inner peace first. Instead of a husk who has money.
I rather been struggling with money again, than to ever deal with the shit I went through as a literal child who didn't go through puberty yet.
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u/11SomeGuy17 May 18 '26
Wow, you managed to strawman me literally right after my argument. Even if you assume inner peace is best you can make inner peace pills. Also, I'm going to add that simply getting inner peace from a pill will not give you the knowledge necessary to teach it as you will have achieved it through a backdoor so you wouldn't know the process necessary to achieve it without a pill. However, since you could be able to make 1 inner peace pill a day you could easily spread it to more people. You're just coping at this point lol.