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“If there are no consequences, then the world is seriously broken.“ The world is broken when people make 100’s of millions of dollars and spend it on villas, e

• ArialAnemone 9y ago
  The world has been broken since agriculture. The system has gotten less rigged than its inception. Imagine instead if a middle class existence, you only had a life of slave drudgery. True slave drudgery. The kind where myths of a world without work are created. Your diet is a monoculture grain. You are mentally slower, more lethargic, and have stunted bones than your ancestors a few generations before. Meanwhile the surplus of your labors goes towards a small priest caste and he priest king. He musters up your young, with the storable surplus you helped create, and gets them to raid other stores of surplus (other towns and cities) so that he can get more loot and women. Did I mention that your wife is always at risk of casual rapine by the boss man? This world is stupid in its way but, at the beginning of the rigged games during the Neolithic, it was even more stupid.