Today, talking about Sindbad the Sailor and Sindbad the Porter

Sindbad the Sailor and Sindbad the Porter is a story from Thousand and One Nights.
Sindbad the porter is just a porter in the city of Baghdad. Sindbad the sailor is an experienced merchant and sailor who went through the impossibles during his seven voyages. He suffered on everyone of his voyages but gained extreme wealth after the voyages. Unlike most people, he share his gains from the voyages with the poor until he's running out of money, then he will set out for the next voyage. This was more than a thousand years ago. Nowadays, we don't see kindness like this as often.

The requirement to survive in our society is getting higher and higher, but right now our economy is at the worst. People don't have extras that can be given to the poor. Even some of the middle class people are now struggling just to stay out of debt or drowning in debt. Some people have certain amount of extra money that they can use however they want, but they don't give them to the poor. Why? They want to save it up for retirement, for back up if anything happens, for their children, and some just because they don't feel like it.

For the riches, some choose to donate or help out the poor because they want to. But for many, they donate to reduce the amount of tax that they have to pay or just to make themselves to look good to the press and people. There are even people, who live in wealthy mansions and have million dollar cars who choose not to care about the rest of the world. The more ability/wealth you have, the more responsibility you have. The world will always be watching for the riches, YOU CAN'T ESCAPE IT!

Hundreds and thousands of years ago, the requirement you need to survive is just to know how to grow food, where to find clean water, and how to defend yourself. Now it's mostly about money or wealth. If you are not rich, or don't have extras, donate simple things like old clothes you don't wear anymore, or volunteer for your local community. If you are rich, donate some of your money then. Not only that you are helping others, you also pay less tax and feel good about yourself. There's no point to have an enormous amount of extra money when you don't need it.