(And your efforts to make it better will be balanced by the efforts of others to make it worse.)

I don't want to sound like a jerk, but then what is the point of trying to make things better for (say) my acquaintances if it only means that I am indirectly screwing over people who I don't know?

Thanks for the link, btw--at some point I hope to sit down for an entire week or two and jus read everything you've written "cover to cover"