A short YouTube monologue by Ryan Daniel Moran describing 'the crisis of abundance': despite plentiful food and consumer options, many people are overweight and financially insecure. He argues abundance creates too many options for available time, so discernment and saying no are necessary to thrive.
70% of the world is overweight (as stated by the speaker).
50% of Americans don't have enough money to cover an emergency (as stated by the speaker).
Do you know that 70% of the world right now is overweight? Do you know that 50% of Americans don't have enough money to be able to cover an emergency right now? Now, there's two ways to look at this. You could look at this as, wow, the world must be so hard for us to be eating this much and not have this much savings. Or we can interpret this as saying we have so much opportunity and we're squandering it. We have all of this food available to us. You can buy packaged food or fresh food, all of this opportunity to buy consumer goods and experience, and no one wants to say no to anything. And this is the crisis of abundance. Abundance is when you have more options than you have time. And therefore, the way that you thrive in an abundant time is the discernment to say no to the things that are not in alignment with what you want to create.
