u/Right_Luck3933

Hi everyone, I’ve recently achieved financial stability and no longer live paycheck to paycheck. Now I want to step up from sympathizing with social causes to actively giving back. But it's not that simple, where basic self-care ends and the greed begins? I want to secure my future (housing, healthcare, emergency fund, maybe investing in some ETF-s). I also want to do fun things like travel or have some hobbies. I want to avoid accumulating wealth just for the number in my bank account to be bigger while others are in need. Usually when I speak my mind aloud like that, someone says "If you are such a leftie why don't you just give everything to the homeless?" How to balance finance while beeing socially aware and active?

Hi everyone, I’ve recently achieved financial stability and no longer live paycheck to paycheck. Now I want to step up from sympathizing with social causes to actively giving back. But it's not that simple, where basic self-care ends and the greed begins? I want to secure my future (housing, healthcare, emergency fund, maybe investing in some ETF-s). I also want to do fun things like travel or have some hobbies. I want to avoid accumulating wealth just for the number in my bank account to be bigger while others are in need. Usually when I speak my mind aloud like that, someone says "If you are such a leftie why don't you just give everything to the homeless?" How to balance finance while beeing socially aware and active?

30 years ago it was a blank space. Neither history nor connections. For once we actually got to build something from scratch but its not like we had to invent fire one more time as we could use centuries worth of knowledge on "how to build civilisations" backing us. At the beginning it felt niche and messy but genuinely it was fun. People would "garden" their own piece of space aka their blog as well as they could. Then the greed showed up and ads, clickbait, polarisation came with it. To be honest, of course, everything tends to get a little worse when the userbase changes from keen nerds to everyone with their own flaws. But still, we had the literal blankest of all carte blanche and we wrote the same story of greed anyway.