I think a room in a beach house might actually cost more than that.
The disparate scale is sometimes so overwhelming it's just easier to close our eyes and not think about it. We open them from time to time, just enough to take a peek (and hopefully do a little something), and go back to doing our own thing.
Jacquline Novogratz encountered this issue when her friend bought champagne for dinner while she was working in Africa. How did one reconcile the part that sought pleasure and decadence, with the surrounding abject poverty?
She remarked that "the challenge was to not take our privileges for granted and to use it in a way that served the world and our highest purpose".
Still, how to understand and come to terms with such inconsistencies?
