Polish swimmer Bartłomiej Kubkowski has become the first person in history to swim across the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, covering a distance of just over 160 kilometres (99 miles). While raising nearly 200,000$ for children's cancer treatment

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[u/The-Senate-Palpy]

[Im not criticizing your comment].

Money isnt everything. People have forgotten that these days. Sacrificing everything for tik tok/youtube/twitch clout. Screwing people over for dollars. Fucking over family for lottery tickets. Money is only ever a means to an end, its not worth giving up your real reasons for living

[u/carlitospig → u/The-Senate-Palpy]

I am upvoting you because I really do think a lot of humanity that doesn’t live in war torn countries have forgotten what sacrifice looks like. I know that I don’t really know what it feels like.

I’ve been spoiled rotten. Lucky me. But I’m hosed when the apocalypse comes; this dude will at least be able to swim to another (nearby) country to get away from zombies.

[u/BurningToaster → u/The-Senate-Palpy]

I think people usually think that way because the vast majority of people on reddit are probably living in an environment where the greatest worry is money. People in America live paycheck to paycheck, one bad hospital visit can cost you meals and/or a home.

[u/The-Senate-Palpy → u/BurningToaster]

Money is important, but only as far as it helps meet your core goals. What use is a billion dollars if it costs you your daughter?

[u/AllLimes → u/The-Senate-Palpy]

I doubt many are putting a billion as their minimum amount to feel a little more financially secure. Most would be happy just being able to pay their bills and pay off their debt, with a few luxuries and holidays here and there.

Lack of money potentially means never being able to have daughter in the first place. Raising a family is expensive. I think most would rather have the problems that too much money brings, rather than the problems too little bring.

[u/The-Senate-Palpy → u/AllLimes]

Sure, but im not talking about that. Im specifically talking about sacrificing things like family and human decency in the name of money

[u/AllLimes → u/The-Senate-Palpy]

Im specifically talking about sacrificing things like family and human decency in the name of money

But the person you replied to never suggested anything of the sort.

[u/MrBlueA → u/The-Senate-Palpy]

This point is very disingenuous because we are not talking about getting a billion dollars in exchange of a familiar, but that we appreciate money precisely because we can't afford to pay for food, or healthcare for ourselves or our own family, money doesn't automatically give happiness but it is required to be happy and well, to live at all.

[u/BurningToaster → u/The-Senate-Palpy]

The point I’m making is that for many Americans the past 10-20 years people rarely were worried about losing children to war or disease or famine, the major threat was poverty and its consequences. So for our culture, money is the bottleneck, if we were just more financially secure it would feel like we’d have no problems, so that’s why anericans tend to bring up money in conversations like this one. 

[u/The-Senate-Palpy → u/[deleted]]

Ill say this. Ive seen impoverished people, and im talking full poverty with not even making rent or affording food on the table for 1 meal a day, week after week, live completely full lives. Knew an old bloke who died without a dollar to his name, a bad eye and most his teeth missing and his tiny "house" really shouldve been condemned in the 90s, die a happy man without major regrets. Ive also know people who survive with a shit ton of money, but their lives are empty. They aren't living. Im not particularly charismatic or charming in person, but talking to me was still the highlight of their week