For a lot of people, obtaining a home, job, and food are perfectly reasonable goals. There's no shortage of people out there that don't have any of these things. Usually it's the people that already have those things in spades that end up taking them for granted, so I'm going to assume that you have a home, job, and food. Feel free to tell us about how unimportant those things are when you don't have any of them to keep you comfortable at night.

If the goal isn't to live as comfortably possible then perhaps it's to have a home good enough to raise a family in so that their kids will be better off than they were as children. Ain't that making the world better in its own way?

Most people don't venture beyond those "trappings" because they're nice and comfortable. You talk about our evolution but our ancestors would have killed to have even half of the things we have now. You say that our goal is to make the world better and as admirable and cookie-worthy as that is, isn't that just your goal? What gives you the right to decide what someone else's goal in life is? You talk about how sad this current form of living is but you fail to propose any better alternatives. What would you have us do? Do you even do that yourself?

Owning a home is a goal... Well, for those who make it a goal. That shit took many years of hard work, drinking beer and eating food at home and no vacations... Goal complete! Now I can focus on my basket weaving goals.

oh gee you're right, I've been living a boring life trying to advance in my job and buy stuff that I like and you're right my dog is a shit bag that costs me too much money because I buy organic dog food but my vet is really hot so there's that, I think I'll start volunteering...that is a noble goal, also I think I'll donate my money. Really...maybe I should just off myself since I'm just a consumer wastefully taking advantage of clean oxygen and there are so many impoverished kids living in outer SE Portland who deserve that oxygen more and also my gym membership makes me entitled - I'm so conflicted, work out and be healthy or give in to white guilt and sign over my membership to the first chubby black kid I see hanging out in front of Lloyd Center. Maybe if I try real hard, I can re-educate myself to see beyond my own needs and satisfaction and acknowledge that no goals are worth accomplishing so long as the people around me are failing at theirs, only by prioritizing their needs can I reach proper self-worth.

Basically, fuck you.

For all the bashing of common societal goals in which the author engages, I notice a suspicious lack of worthy alternate goals offered.

Did you happen to see all those people in Portland while knocking on their doors, asking for money for trees, whales, or union members?

So glad you've found your calling and purpose as an insufferable cunt. We appreciate your condescension!