“What is the name for the thing Ants do that Grasshoppers don’t? Oh, yes: Husbandry. Maybe that’s why nobody wants to talk about it.”
Why does she think she has bad credit? Because she keeps getting turned down – apparently with no one telling her why. In six months she’ll have great credit, because I will have told her where to go and what to do. How do I know she’ll follow through? It’s right there in her payment history – same reason we’re leasing to her.
I don’t know if this is compassion or not. Wouldn’t it be better for my investor to leave her in the dark, like everyone else is doing? Steady payer who doesn’t know she has options – that’s a candy machine. I cannot even imagine not telling someone how to stop drowning, but I don’t consider that compassion, just simple humanity.
Whatever. Listen to the MercyCrats, and listen to how little their attested compassion actually matters – actually results in any real change in real human lives. A compassionate culture would offer continuous free “Ant 101” classes – “How to stop being a dipshit Grasshopper today!” Instead we indulge in charity theater without ever telling poor people why they are poor and how they can stop being poor.
The Nazarene said the poor will always be with us. Hardly necessary – anyone can master better habits – and it is nothing but cruelty to conceal crucial, mission-critical facts. If you insist you are compassionate, a good New Year’s resolution for 2021 would be to do compassion better: Not just charity theater but real change for real people.
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