It’s true, although some of those things make me rather sad. Climate change is one – I’m moving to a coastal city in a few years and as I’m designing a home, I’m realizing that everyone that didn’t have the money to build with climate change in mind is going to live a hard life. Just south in Quảng Nam it’s already getting quite bad.
In the slum where I live now (in HCMC), life is easy and most people do not work full time (I think 3-4 people on my street have what you would recognize as a ‘job’). However, they will be priced out of their homes within a generation, there are no words I can say to help them, and the cause is company owners like me seizing the lion’s share of the country’s growth (although admittedly I work a lot more than they do).
At least for the moment they lead rich and full lives with family and friends, a brief moment in the sun – but they’ve sold their children’s future for the present without realizing it.
It’s true, although some of those things make me rather sad. Climate change is one – I’m moving to a coastal city in a few years and as I’m designing a home, I’m realizing that everyone that didn’t have the money to build with climate change in mind is going to live a hard life. Just south in Quảng Nam it’s already getting quite bad.
In the slum where I live now (in HCMC), life is easy and most people do not work full time (I think 3-4 people on my street have what you would recognize as a ‘job’). However, they will be priced out of their homes within a generation, there are no words I can say to help them, and the cause is company owners like me seizing the lion’s share of the country’s growth (although admittedly I work a lot more than they do).
At least for the moment they lead rich and full lives with family and friends, a brief moment in the sun – but they’ve sold their children’s future for the present without realizing it.