towardsWisdom

There are countless number of things to do in life, countless activities, countless fields to explore. What’s interesting is that within any particular thing, no matter how small it seems, you can go infinitely deep, explore & grow in it infinitely. Be it a game like Age of Empires, or a relationship, or fitness, or computer science, or being the richest person, each of these things has infinite growth & depth to offer, and once you get into that zone, you can end up spending an infinite amount of time enjoyably.

Life is like a Real Number line filled with various activities, fields, interests, aspects, laid out as intervals on it. Even if the interval is small like [0, 1], there still are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.

Someone asked on reddit:

Torrenting at a coffeeshop?
As stupid as it sounds, has anyone risked torrenting at a coffeeshop or workplaces? Do people get caught for that like in universities? I would assume so if someone does it excessively.

And a response was:

Don’t ruin public internet that has been provided as a courtesy because you don’t have $3 for a vpn.

But I thought, many people in India won’t bother spending even a small amount on vpn; they would just use the public wifi blatantly, spoiling trust-based public systems for all. This happens all the time. What’s the difference between people in the west and there?

The above response would deter the people in US because they understand it correctly that they would also be affected. They are part of the system receiving benefits nearly as equal as everybody else, so they wouldn’t want to spoil it.

In India, notice that the people who would ruin such trust-based public systems are generally from poor backgrounds – “cheap people” as some call them. The socioeconomic disparity is so high in India that these disadvantaged people don’t really feel equally treated in the society in the first place. Thus they probably develop this attitude of “Why should I give a fuck about the society if the society doesn’t give a fuck about me?”. Isn’t this the same line of thought as Trevor Noah gave even he explained the Black community’s riots in the summer?