Simone Weil, David Foster Wallace, the Buddha

• Simone Weil, David Foster Wallace and the Buddha as 3 very privileged people who got hands-on experience seeing the suffering of the poor
• Simone → elite family, brother went on to become famous mathematician
• DFW → his dad was a philosophy professor, his mum an english teacher, went to a very prestigious college
• The Buddha → you know, a prince