Hey Aristus. Sir.
On Sunday, September 21, you posted this, in a thread started by your colleague cali, bitching (as usual) about something:
Aristus (34,413 posts) Sun Sep 21, 2014, 10:25 AM
44. It's medical providers like these, and not like me, a primary care provider working 55 hours a week at a medical clinic serving the homeless in a run-down, one-story building in a dodgy part of town, and who hasn't had more than one week off in two years, who inspire others to call me 'greedy', 'money-crazed', and the owner of mansions and yachts.
Yeah, we're not all like this, people. In fact, most of us aren't. Or they wouldn't be writing about it in a newspaper.
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Dude.
You’ve got to get over yourself.
There’s no evidence that you’re not a nice guy, well reputed in your profession, talented in your work, but one really doubts you’re as charitable, as self-sacrificing, as you try to portray yourself.
Charity is not giving someone else a spare shirt that’s hanging in the closet; charity is giving the shirt off one’s back when one doesn’t have a spare one. It means going without a shirt, so that someone else may have one.
True charity demands sacrifice, real sacrifice.
When I was in college, it was a practice in the dormitories and Greek houses to “give up†one supper a year, the money saved from that being donated to a soup-line so that the poor and hungry could have something on which to dine.
Many residents thought themselves rather magnanimous, giving up their supper so that others could have supper; they thought themselves rather charitable.
It was bullshit, dude.
On the “no supper†evening, a hat was passed around to buy Valentino’s pizzas for each of the floors and houses. Nobody went hungry. They just traded cafeteria food for exquisite cuisine. Nobody went hungry so that others could eat; nobody gave up a damned thing.
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Dude.
I think it’s remarkable that you choose to work with those seriously deficient in medical care, and oft-times ignored by everybody else; it’s all good.
But undoubtedly you’re being as well-paid, as well-benefited, as others working in the same profession, but with different sorts of patients and in fancier neighborhoods.
In other words, you’re not sacrificing a thing.
This reminds me of one of your colleagues who some months ago boasted about how virtuous, how caring, she was, because she’s a desk-sitting governmental bureaucrat who gives out food stamps.
The problem being, she was giving out charity donated by others, not by herself personally.
She was making no sacrifice, demonstrating no virtue, giving out largesse of the taxpayers.
And being a desk-sitting governmental employee, she enjoys a salary and fringe benefits far exceeding what those working in private enterprise receive. She’s not giving anything up, by giving out food-stamps; the food-stamps didn‘t come out of her own purse.
You’re probably an okay dude, but don’t pat yourself on your back too much.