Your attitude is similar to that of many Hartz4 recipients: Whether I go to work or not doesn’t matter. Plenty of others go to work anyway. What difference does it make if I do?
I read along there and, as often, I can understand something from both sides. BUT , that is nevertheless an arrogant and also disparaging statement. Surely you don’t mean it badly, but from the security of your own powdered, controlled residential ventilation subdivision house, such words about others often come too quickly to my mind. Even there, among the people who receive HartzIV, there are lazy, stupid, smart, and diligent people just like anywhere around us; it is not black and white there either, even if we would like things to be simpler so that our arguments fit better. A "Ritter family" is a fate that largely has something to do with the behavior of the rest of society and for which society itself should be ashamed; unfortunately, the Ritter family often doesn’t notice this itself or doesn’t know or create a way out. From one’s own double garage with surveillance camera and underfloor heating, one apparently perceives the world a bit differently. If one REALLY knew this "world" better and personally, about which one is so judgmental, one would write it differently and, above all, feel it with more empathy.
I just wanted to say that you apparently do not recognize the dimensions of your actions...
....against this background, it is advisable to read your own, self-written text again......see above described it well in my opinion. No one lives perfectly exemplary; even our German companies prefer to pay taxes abroad etc...... Everyone should develop more and more a healthy awareness of social obligations rather than looking down on supposed freeloaders. These "lazy freeloaders" (let’s at least call it by name as we mean it) do not really endanger our state; that rather happens on the stock exchange or in the dealings of decadently acting economic sectors. I am firmly convinced that EVERYONE should have an awareness that they bear their own responsibility for our social system, that is also for the economy around me—the craftsman, the baker—but also the economy, the baker, plumber, etc. must think this way themselves, and the craftsman must also think regionally; only then can it fit. And speaking of Hartz IV. Everyone receives what they are legally entitled to, whether someone likes it or not. If he/she gets it, it is correct and does not deserve disparagement. Or do you have to justify or be ashamed because you rip off tens of thousands of euros from our state for some lobby-driven KFW or whatever systems. It is done because there is free money, period. If there were no free money, 90% of it would not be done either. Kfw houses are mostly built that way because there is free money and not because you could live better in them. By the way, I see Hartz IV people less often abroad at the stylish après-ski party or in the Caribbean where mostly still enslaved, underpaid poor staff with white gloves serve the cocktail saved by Kfw funding. At the beach party, regionality is quickly ignored (sorry), or will we all soon meet in the Harz? Nope.....that looks dumb on Twitter. A little less hypocrisy and more actual doing instead of just talking would do EVERYONE (including me!!!) good! I consciously include myself, as unfortunately I am not free of it either!!
When I think of local community, I think of the carpenter who works in a backyard workshop.
Yep, that’s how it is. But this carpenter also has to implement that thinking, because if he then orders everything online or cheaply abroad, then this idea is only half-hearted. Does the carpenter also buy regionally himself or does he constantly fly off to Tatütata...... abroad? That is important because otherwise, I would rather buy in Romania or Poland if the Pole/Romanian then spends his family vacation in the Eifel or spends his money on German roast pork. It’s not that simple in my opinion...... I’m finally going to cut open my mango now.