Hey Elizabeth—just to clarify I don’t think you’ve insulted my friends at all don’t worry about that—I just disagreed from my experience at least that was the situation with most NGO workers like you claimed. I get that you are trying to respect people by pushing for them to be paid more it’s all good.
As a small note, I don’t think they have made a “big sacrifice” at all, most wouldn’t say they have made any sacrifice at all. They have traded earning money (which might mean less to them than for other people anyway) for a satisfying job while living a (relatively) simple lifestyle which they believe is healthy for themselves and the planet. Personally I don’t consider this a sacrifice either, just living your best life!
I’m going to leave it here for now (not in a bad way at all) because I suspect our underlying worldviews differ to such a degree here that it may be hard to debate these surface salary and lifestyle issues without first probing at deeper underlying assumptions here about happiness, equality, “deserving” etc., which would take a deeper and longer discussion that might be tricky on a forum back and forth
Not saying I’m not up for discussing these things in general though!
Hey Elizabeth—just to clarify I don’t think you’ve insulted my friends at all don’t worry about that—I just disagreed from my experience at least that was the situation with most NGO workers like you claimed. I get that you are trying to respect people by pushing for them to be paid more it’s all good.
As a small note, I don’t think they have made a “big sacrifice” at all, most wouldn’t say they have made any sacrifice at all. They have traded earning money (which might mean less to them than for other people anyway) for a satisfying job while living a (relatively) simple lifestyle which they believe is healthy for themselves and the planet. Personally I don’t consider this a sacrifice either, just living your best life!
I’m going to leave it here for now (not in a bad way at all) because I suspect our underlying worldviews differ to such a degree here that it may be hard to debate these surface salary and lifestyle issues without first probing at deeper underlying assumptions here about happiness, equality, “deserving” etc., which would take a deeper and longer discussion that might be tricky on a forum back and forth
Not saying I’m not up for discussing these things in general though!