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Americans need to be more empathetic to recover from COVID-19 - Business Insider

Americans need to be more empathetic to recover from COVID-19 - Business Insider

Americans need to be more empathetic to recover from COVID-19 - Business Insider
May 22, 2020 1 min, 30 secs

We often don't know any better, or don't have the confidence to draw outside the lines until we're older.

One of the biggest: not living the life they wanted to lead, but the life others chose for them.

COVID-19 presents society, and each of us, with the opportunity to design a better life with ..?

In Florida, like many places, the water has been so clear, the sky so blue that I wonder if this is a time to move away from coal, cars, commutes ...

Because, deep down, we've been taught to believe that we live in a meritocracy and that billionaires and minimum wage workers all deserve what they got?

We can and should replace the hollow tributes with federally mandated $20/hour minimum wage.

This "outrageous" lift in minimum wage would vault us from the 1960s to the present?

As of 2018, the federal minimum wage was worth 29% less than in 1968.

Money is a vehicle for the transfer of time and work from one entity to another.

So, if we spend less money on one thing, we can invest more time on another.

Could we invest less in stuff, less in commuting, and more in relationships.

Believing my worth to others was a function of the stuff I had, or didn't have.

This is an opportunity to spend less on stuff, spend less time commuting, and reallocate that capital and time to our partners and children.

We need a generation of men who emerge from this crisis with a commitment to being better fathers, husbands, and citizens.

The fastest path to a better life is regularly assessing what we leave behind

The fastest blue-line path to a better world is more engaged fathers, not a better f------ phone. 

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