A friend wrote, “I also wonder why
sustainability suddenly becomes relevant only in this respect? Almost nothing
we do -- the houses we build and live in, the roads we lay, the gadgets we buy,
the internet, the cars.... none of these comes from a sustainable model! Yes,
understanding and engaging with the larger systemic issues is needed but our
life is premised on charity too -- I know the room I sleep in was built by the
back-breaking work of migrant workers unsustainably carrying loads of bricks on
their heads, earning a pittance and eating pazhedu for lunch. I am the beneficiary
of this charity on their part."
We are the ones living on
charity - the blood and sweat of others. We pay
the labourer a fraction of our normal earnings, which barely keeps body and
soul together. The little bit more we give we name 'charity'.
Another friend wrote, “ Yes for
long I keep saying the farmers are subsidising the govt and us not the other
way.."
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