Poverty does not rule
Poverty does not rule
Sadly not an actual line from FFT, but it fits the tone tbqh
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Lol i assumed it was an actual FFT line. Nice work
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it's close enough to the themes that i assumed it was in a different translation
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This distinction isn’t as profound as it seems. Why do humans accumulate extreme wealth? Why does a fox engage in surplus killing when it gets into a henhouse? The answer to these two questions is the same: nature was solving one kind of problem (scarcity) in a way that utterly fails to handle the opposite problem (abundance).
Now you might say “billionaires are different from foxes, billionaires have a choice!” But then if they chose differently, they wouldn’t become billionaires in the first place. Thus all billionaires are people who could not resist the lure of wealth (for whatever reason).
It’s a selective process, no different in mechanics from natural selection. Hence the meaninglessness of the natural/man-made distinction here.
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Maybe we should engage in some natural selection of our own. I hear the French have some revolutionary techniques for it.
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Sometimes we just have to cull the problem members of the herd.
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Of course poverty is natural. That's why humans have always banded together to create wealth.
Frist thing a tribal society does is try to store up food and create tools to get more food.
Then they try to get clothes and shelter.
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Of course poverty is natural.
Nope, you're wrong.
That’s why humans have always banded together to create wealth. Frist thing a tribal society does is try to store up food and create tools to get more food. Then they try to get clothes and shelter.
What you've described is literally just living and surviving. So... what, people who are experiencing poverty are just not working to acquire food, clothes, and shelter like they should be? Or is there something, unnatural, that prevents them from actually doing this?
Poverty is unnatural and is created by an unnatural system that is purely man-made. Your example actually demonstrates it perfectly, back before the invented system, people were free to survive the way they needed and were without poverty.
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