There’s this growing narrative that everyone “owes” something to society. That if you’re not constantly producing, achieving, or climbing, then you’re somehow a burden. But that’s not how value—or morality—actually works.
You don’t owe society anything by default. You were born. You exist. That’s not a debt. That’s life.
What you do owe is directly tied to what you take.
What you ask for.
What you demand.
If you’re draining resources, taking special treatment, demanding wealth, power, attention, or support—then yes, accountability comes with that. But if you’re not asking for anything and not hurting anyone? You don’t have to justify your existence to anyone.
That’s not selfish. That’s freedom.
The moment we start treating existence as a debt, we’ve entered moral slavery. And the people screaming the loudest about what others “owe” are often the ones doing the least to fix their own lives. They are the ones taking the most from society.
We should stop judging people by what they have and start judging them by what they extract versus what they return—their power-to-weight ratio.
Are you feeding the system—or bleeding it?
Are you moving things forward—or just adding dead weight?
Because it’s not about being rich or poor.
It’s about whether you’re a drain or a driver.
Whether you’re creating value or just hoarding it and calling that genius.
Too much buildup with no output? That’s dysfunction.
Too much growth with no direction? That’s cancer.
Too much stored wealth that nobody can use? That’s rot.
And yeah, the metaphor holds up: hoarding value is no different from hoarding calories or toxins in the body. It slows things down. Breaks things. Kills the system.
We’ve all heard “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life.”
But let’s push it further:
Give a man a thousand fish and teach him how to store them forever?
Now you’ve got a guy hoarding value while the world around him starves.
And no matter how much he stockpiles, he’ll never be worth more than the person who still knows how to fish. Who adapts, creates, shares, and moves forward.
That’s the real measure of value—not how many resources you sit on, but how many you can produce given what you consume.
And if you really want to give something meaningful back to society, don’t start with hashtags or empty lectures. Start by making yourself stronger, sharper, healthier. Improve your body. Sharpen your mind. Learn how to fish.
Because you can’t lift others up if you’re sinking yourself.
You can’t preach contribution when you haven’t learned discipline.
And you definitely shouldn’t be moralizing from the sidelines if you’ve done nothing to master your own life.
If someone’s demanding to know what you’ve done for society—
Ask them how much they walked today. How much they ate.
Ask them how much they actually need to be happy.
And whether they’re a source of strength—or just another drain.
The real question isn’t “What have you done for society?”
It’s “How have you made yourself better today, so you’re actually capable of helping anyone?”
That’s where it all starts.
Not with a vault of fish—