Why We Need to Improve Everyone’s Lives

At left is an allegory I just came across.  Its point, obviously, is that it’s impossible to lead a good, satisfying life when one is surrounded by suffering.

It’s the reason I’m happy to pay the portion of my taxes that are directed to education.  I don’t have kids in the public school system, but don’t want to live around horrifically ignorant people, especially in a nation that is already hellbent on rejecting science, ruining the environment, white supremacy, political violence, banning books and abortion, and electing criminal conmen to lead us.