Yeah, op sounds like younger me, wanted to help everyone. Still do, but more realism added in. The more you help, the more people take advantage. Not those who need help but those whose jobs it is who should be doing something in the first place.

Help clean the highway medians? They’ll reduce the cleaning budget of the highways and people will litter more. Food banks are stuffed full with donations? Guess we don’t need those welfare programs. Put in an extra hour after work? Great we can expect you to do that forever now.

Every positive thing you do there is someone with money who is waiting to profit off of your free labor. It sucks.

No of course not, there’s too much traffic

If they give money to transit riders drivers won’t get that extra lane that will finally solve traffic!

It’s one of my spouse’s favorite sayings when I’m in a spiral. “Pause for a minute, and let’s assume on the off chance society keeps going” and it brings me out of it. My therapist told me that once too, there are infinite possibilities between the best outcome and the worst, and probability says it will probably end up somewhere in between".

It’s easy on the internet to go full doomer, and to assume if it’s not the best case that it’s the worst, when really, it’s probably somewhere in between.

Exactly. They’re right, but it’s just a way to not feel guilty about driving a gas guzzler or using a gas furnace. No the corporations are more guilty, but that doesn’t make you innocent for just shifting the blame, the same tactic they did. We ALL need to change our ways.

Like I’m all for that we need to hold a fire under corporations. But we also need to change too. Just because they do like, 70% of it doesn’t mean we’re off the hook. We’re buying those products that they pollute for. We drive the cars that are polluting. We buy the cheap clothes that they shamelessly pollute. We each have to change.