First apply your mask and then help others around you who may need assistance.

If you have flown a few time you will have heard this as they give you all the safety instructions when they explain about the oxygen masks.

This really is something that people need to apply to their lives also IMO. You can't really help others in a meaningful way until you are coming from a position of being secure. This isn't to say you need to be financially free or crazy rich, just you need a level of security that you aren't still drowning in life.

Someone who has a solid footing can do so much more for others and help them reach the level they have already reached.

We are in it for a quick meal even if it means tomorrow we will starve.

This makes me think of a zombie shoe I was watched at some point. End of days and this group of mainly young guys with 1 older(wiser) man find a farm with chickens. They could have lived off the eggs forever, but instead they wanted meat and ate the chickens. After a week they lost what would have been a great long term food source. The Dad had pushed the group to not each the chickens, but he was outnumbered. Hence why he was the smarter one.

Know it's just a TV show, but without question this instant gratification mentality is very prevalent today.