23 july 2023
"Helping"
I had a strange interaction on reddit the other day. I wrote a post about how I was finally able to buy socks after dealing with having holey socks for a long time. I have socks now. Need met.
Yet some stranger insists they buy me socks. I reply to them "I have socks, please just subscribe to my substack blog about surviving poverty". judging by my tumbleweed filled substack dashboard, they did not view or subscribe to my blog. I NEED this since the algorithm rewards people with views/subs with more views. The "it's already popular so we should make it more popular" logic.
This person then replies essentially no way bro. I'm going to send you socks
I need to do my good deed of the day.
Helping people is great, but if you won't listen to the person you're trying to help, maybe this is actually about feeling good about yourself and a lot less about helping.
Now I feel like I have to help them by allowing them to buy me socks I don't need so they don't walk away thinking that poor people are just ungrateful.