Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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Venezuela, where money is worthless but still want to dress up for carnival:
- Money is not necessary to be happy!grafician
- neither is food. it will take hold of you and you will resent it's absence!hotroddy
- ^for me it don't but for the homeless man I just helped tonight with a full bag of food and essentials made a very big differencegrafician
- I mean how the fuck can we ignore people their essentials and still call ourselves civilised?!grafician
- But either way, somebody somewhere will still be happy with less, when others will fear for their billionsgrafician
- when you're not busy 'surviving' you have the luxury of behaving civil.hotroddy
- I swear hotroddy that homeless man just needed companionship the most, I checked back on him a few hours ago he didn't touched the food, he needed somebody...grafician
- ...to be there and talk to him, remind him he is a real person and anything bad happening is not his fault!grafician
- this situation broke my heart, I know that man and helped him several times in these past months, money or not he still got his dignity and his was freegrafician
- point being, no money in the world can buy dignity and a person's soul! so yeah, in Venezuela ppl can use worthless money to design fancy dresses, they happygrafician
- they happy 'cuz they know money don't buy happiness, they making fools out of us "civilised" ppl livin' in 1st world countriesgrafician
- i think the dress is more a protest on inflation than a reflection of happiness.hotroddy
- you'd be stoked to see your hard earned money lose half its value every other day.hotroddy
- Actually I live in a country where this happened about twice in 25 years so...grafician
- that doesn't mean you stop caring for others, common!grafician
- but yeah, you maybe right, the money dress is a sign of protest, not contesting thatgrafician
- 'caring for others' while destroying a vibrant economy for the rest.hotroddy
- at the point where you are doing more harm then good.hotroddy
- i think you're right that people value connection/message over material wealth. This is how Venezuela gov't is able to keep power. It's the message.hotroddy
- I also think you are using 1st world privileges to project a shallow image of 3rd world happiness.hotroddy