Is it ethical to spend so much just because you can?
Something I've been thinking alot about lately - for me personally, I live in decent home (which I own), I earn decent money, I have a number of charities and sponserships....but part of me still feels sort of guilty (for want of a better word) when I spend money - like a new outfit for a wedding, or clothes, or shoes or whatever, things I don't really 'need' but desire, when I could be giving more to others.
And then I open a magazine (another luxury!) and some celebrety has just spent millions of dollars on a wedding, or a summer house, or x celebrity has requested a refurbished hotel room for their stay, or whatever and I find that appalling to spend so much on such frivolous things when I wonder how many mouths could be fed with that, how many lives saved, etc.
But, then I think, am I really that different? What I spend is probably in comparision with what I earn to what they spend and earn.
I suppose I feel it's so sad that there are so many starving children (and adults) and homeless and sick and dying in our world, it seems just so wrong.
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