Week 4

I watched my step-siblings argue over who got to give their father’s 5 dollar bill to a performer in a restaurant a few days ago. Such gratuity can only be considered valuable if you give up your own money, otherwise it’s no longer a private message of appreciation and rather a public statement of your generosity. It disgusts me that some people in this world will only offer assistance when they know they’re being watched. Offering their hand to a man stuck in a ditch 5 meters deep when they have a rope 10 meters long, or giving spare change to the roadside performer on camera while the homeless mother in the alley starves.