A short monologue (YouTube video) in which the speaker reflects on wealth disparity, arguing that if affluent people empathized with the poor and followed the Golden Rule by sharing more of their resources and engaging in charity/community service, much crime could be reduced. The speaker ends by asking viewers what they can share today.
I often wonder how much less crime there would be if we watched ourselves living our own lives as though we were ourselves poor or underprivileged. If we all did that, what would we be thinking about ourselves, particularly in terms of how we share our wealth or our food or our belongings, the extent to which we live in luxury, and how much we go out of our way to engage in charity and community service for those in need? Now, I'm no epidemiologist or anthropologist, but I'm hazarding a guess that we folks who have been blessed with wealth could solve a lot of the world's crime problems by simply following the Golden Rule a whole lot more and sharing a whole lot more of what we have. So let me ask you this. What can you share today.
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