Until my daughter was born, I didn't care about much. I didn't see it that way at the time, but it's painfully clear now. I didn't care about the self-assessed "unnecessary details" of my own life (trivial matters like insurance, savings, my health), much less broader systemic concerns like healthcare, politics and the future. I didn't _fear_ these things.

Having my daughter has made me fear, well, everything.

How our healthcare, political, and national security systems are failing us, and in fact compounding each other's shortcomings (I'm a U.S. Citizen). How we constantly fail each other as neighbors, citizens, and fellow humans in exchange for greed, or power, or whatever, with a veneer of naïveté.

I don't know what needs to be done to arrive at a system where all manner of people, no matter the challenges they face, can get constructive, effective help. And some days it feels like we're moving in the right direction. But that day can't come soon enough.

The HN community wields an astronomical amount of power and leverage in today's world. And the community is realizing too that this influence can affect more than vacation rentals. We have the tools, knowledge, and relationships to help our fellow people in bigger ways than we've yet realized. To eat this elephant one bite at a time is the only way to make situations like this man's a relic of the past.