My Philosophy

This is where I’ll go over in-depth my philosophy and why I want to give back to people so much, what I mean by “I really do mean it”, and what I want to do to make the world a better place. Before I start, I’m well aware this is probably going to come across like some kind of manifesto, but I assure every person reading this that I have absolutely no intention of instigating a proletarian revolution or march on a capital, committing any act of terror, or anything of the sort. This is just to explain my thought process and my intentions.

I want to start with my childhood. As I said in my about section, I was born and raised in Canada. Ontario, and closer to the capital, to be more precise. In other words, the part of the country that gets represented. My family was never well-off, but we had enough to live. We rented house after house, paid excessively high-interest car payments, and moved plenty, but we always had enough to be comfortable. As a kid, I didn’t really pay attention to the news much. The most I would watch would be Dad turning it on and then changing the channel because Mom complained every time.

As I got older, I started paying attention to the news more. From around 17 onwards, I checked news sites regularly and read the articles. It sounds simple, but you would be surprised how many people just skim the headlines and call it a day. I would see some new war started in Africa or the Middle East, another human rights abuse in some country I’ve barely even heard of, and, what hit closest to home, political and societal struggles here in Canada. People who have nothing because the government can’t provide for everyone. People with no home, no food, no clean water, nothing. I see unemployment numbers rising, inflation out-pacing wage growth, prices soaring, all while the government can’t do anything and the people paying wages didn’t want to do anything because it would hurt their bottom line. Even outside of poverty, inequality is everywhere. To use Canada as an example, Ontario and Quebec essentially dictate the governance of the western provinces. Provinces like British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan get almost no representation due to their lower population despite being integral parts of the Canadian economy.

Ok, now what do I intend to do? That’s the hard part, and it fully depends on how much money I end up making in the future. The big thing I want to do is help to solve hunger and poverty as much as possible, starting in Canada as this is where I live. My goal would be to establish or fund non-profit organizations to aid those experiencing poverty in any way, and to help lift them out of it. If I’m lucky enough to end up starting my own company, I would go as far as giving these people jobs at local offices that I could potentially have, and to provide jobs so they don’t become wholly reliant on money/food from these organizations. This would start locally, then go provincial, then national, and finally international to help all those who need it. This is the best-case scenario, of course. Realistically, I expect to be simply donating what I can where I can and hoping it ends up in the right places. That’s not to say I don’t think that’ll help, of course. I know it will, and I will give what I can, no matter how small.

As for the issues of political representation, activism and spreading awareness are all I can really do for now. In a best-case scenario, meaning I am the head of a privately-owned, reasonably profitable company, I would certainly do what all companies do in the western world and lobby for change. The only difference being what I want to lobby for is actually good, rather than giving Mickey Mouse another 30 years before becoming public domain. I would also like to start various organizations for the re-distribution and re-calculation of Canada’s various electoral districts. I would not advocate for proportional representation in national elections as it would just put us right back at the start of this mess, but provincial and local elections are a different topic and I would need to do research on what those borders would look like.

To close, I want to reiterate that I am not of a poor family, nor from a politically under-represented region. I have not experienced much hardship in my life at all, in fact. My desire to create change does not come from that, nor from some delusion that I somehow know what it’s like to be in poverty or under-represented. My desire to create a positive difference is out of hope. I hope that the world can become so much more than what it is today, that we can all live in comfort and peace, and that nobody has to go hungry or be under-represented. I believe all lives matter, that every single person deserves to be seen and heard by someone, and that nobody deserves to be looked over or forgotten, much less the people who need help most.