Masayoshi Kishimoto and Rie Sakai were having dinner when suddenly the lights went out. He didn't panic at all, and his first reaction was that it was time for his birthday cake.

Sure enough, a man in a tuxedo played the violin in self-absorption. As for the music he plays, it's the well-known Happy Birthday tune.

A waitress pushes a birthday cake in a cart and walks slowly in the direction of Kishimoto to the music of the violin.

Masayoshi Kishimoto looked at the lit candles on the birthday cake, not three, but thirty. Those birthday candles are not the thin ones used by Natsui Makoto, but they are as thick as his own little finger.

Although the birthday cake is single-layered, it is a huge one. Even if I and Sakai Rie eat it alone, I can't finish it at all. He himself knows that it means to follow a formalism.

Seeing that the waitress had stopped, and after stabilizing the wheelbarrow, Kishimoto slowly stood up and moved a few steps outward.

He looked head-on at the birthday cake, crossed his fingers into a large fist, and placed it in front of his face to start the indispensable birthday wish.

"Are you going to blow out the birthday candles with me?" said Masayoshi Kishimoto without hurrying to blow out the birthday candles.

Rie Sakai nodded, then stood up cautiously. She stood still and didn't move, but it was Kishimoto who came to her side by candlelight.

Rie Sakai took the initiative to stretch out one of his hands and clasped one of his hands with ten fingers. The two of them took a deep breath in agreement, and then bent down and blew out the lit candle together.

Moments after all the candles are blown out, all the lights in the dining room are lit again. Rie Sakai generously kissed the side of Kishimoto's face, and said with a heartfelt smile, "Happy birthday." ”

"Thank you. Masayoshi Kishimoto also leaned sideways in front of the public and kissed her on the right cheek.

He picked up the knife from the trolley and cut the birthday cake without hesitation. Whether he eats or not, it really doesn't matter to him at all.

Anyway, there will be a birthday cake from Nao Fujie on top of the supper before 12 o'clock in the evening. He looked at the cream on the birthday cake and felt greasy in his heart.

Masayoshi Kishimoto put down the knife in his hand first, and then helped Rie Sakai to sit down again. He circled the table half a way around the table and sat down in his place.

"My birthday was so luxurious. In fact, more meaningful things can be done. For example, donate money for my birthday to charity. Kishimoto said calmly.

"You're blaming me for spending money. Rie Sakai said bluntly.

"Did you know that hundreds of Mexicans smuggled across the Mexican border to the United States every year die on the road?

A total of $9 billion is remitted from the United States to Mexico every year by Mexicans who work as illegal immigrants in the United States.

Some of the family members who stayed in Mexico used remittances to improve their lives, and they also used it to repair their houses, get married, do some small business, and so on.

The people at the bottom of Mexican society are so difficult, not to mention the abject poverty of people in some countries and regions such as Africa, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

Regardless, Mexico also benefits from being able to share a border with the United States. Kishimoto said seriously.

"I say you're hypocritical! You'll never admit it. Then even if you're paying too much attention to the poor. Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American thinker, writer, poet, and one of the spiritual representatives of American thought, said in his book "Self-reliance" that the problem of the poor was righteously and awe-inspiring.

Don't tell me, don't tell me, like people of good will do today, that I have a responsibility to make a good life for all the poor.

Are they poor, but are they my poor? I tell you, you stupid philanthropist, I skimp on every dime, even every penny.

Those poor people have nothing to do with me, and I have nothing to do with them. Rie Sakai retorted forcefully and reasonably.

"If it had been before, when I was a student, I don't think he was right. However, now I feel that he is extreme and biased.

Everyone has to work hard to get ahead, and if you haven't made it yet, it's because you're not trying hard enough. Charity may well be a good thing that does bad things and fosters the laziness of the poor.

This should be the core of Ralph Waldo Emerson's thoughts, but it is necessary to distinguish between two concepts, one is unequal outcome and the other is unequal opportunity.

There are many people who do not like to discuss the issue of inequality, because they believe that inequality of results is a natural law, and that imposing equality on all people is a violation of freedom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson thought the same way. However, when it comes to inequality of opportunity, few people support it.

Whether it is rich or poor, whether it is left or right, in fact, everyone feels that everyone should have equal opportunities, and this is the real fairness. However, this is not the case.

What we have seen is that inequality of opportunity necessarily leads to inequality of outcome, which in turn affects inequality of opportunity. "Kishimoto conducted a dialectic.

"It's not that I'm going to raise the bar with you tonight, it's that you have to raise the bar with me. As for the poverty alleviation of the poor, that is what the government should do to do.

If there are many poor people in a country, it can only show that the government does not do much in this area, and does not govern very much. Why do I say that?

That's because every one of us is a taxpayer. We handed over the tax money to the government. How does the government use our taxes to distribute and operate...... That's their business, not ours.

That's why Ralph Waldo Emerson would say, 'What's my business?' Those poor people have nothing to do with me. They're poor, but are they my poor?" said Rie Sakai, disagreeing with his statement.

"I reserve my opinion, you can say what you say!" Kishimoto said suddenly remembering that he still had to get away from her, so he couldn't make her unhappy.

"Now, if you don't agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson, that's your business. I am a firm supporter of what he said. Rie Sakai said seriously.

Masayoshi Kishimoto knows that once he argues with her, I'm afraid there will be no end. Besides, there is no point in existing. His strategy was to remain silent.