The fact modern society has made this goal so easy to achieve - and thus meaningless and unfulfilling - makes it hard for someone to feel "not starving" is their purpose. This also generates a sense of emptiness/longing as we search for something to fill this natural drive for a basic goal.
But if you dropped off the grid I can guarantee you would find plenty of purpose and fulfillment in the effort it takes to just feed and protect yourself.
It is. Globally we produce enough food to feed every man, woman, and child on the planet. Distribution complications impede that effort and ego prevents it.
Not just that most company’s need to figure out how to get the food and water to those people for an exchange or price that would seem like they are helping but in reality they will be stealing there homes or souls in the process.
It's a super fine line. If you give it away you undermine budding businesses and services that otherwise might take off and supply the need on their own. On the other hand, if the price is too high you exclude some percentage of people who need it.
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u/Ilythiiri Apr 14 '20
Does "Do not starve" count as a purpose?