6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person

6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person
David Wong, Cracked.com, 2015/12/30
This was written a few years ago, but it's making the end-of-year rounds again, and I think it should be shared (note, though: language warning - it's on Cracked.com after all). The harsh truths are all to the effect that the world is not a nice place. Here they are (quoted):

• The world only cares about what it can get from you
• You are nothing more than the sum total of your useful skills
• What you produce does not have to make money, but it does have to benefit people
• You hate yourself because you don't do anything
• What you are inside only matters because of what it makes you do
• Everything inside you will fight improvement

This is both right and it is wrong. Here is where it is wrong: it is basically a denial that you - or anyone else - has any intrinsic worth. More...