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What do you mean, "fucked [you] in the head"? Like, you could not understand why someone would act like that? You had difficulty reconciling your expectations
by rexpop 6y ago
What do you mean, "fucked [you] in the head"?
Like, you could not understand why someone would act like that? You had difficulty reconciling your expectations of human society with your experience in Pakistan? What changed?
- pen2l 6y agoI meant it was shocking to see humans behaving so subserviently, being so at terms with their situation: making pennies for chores and yet being so hardworking. I don't want to call it slavery, but it's something around there.
- sumedh 6y agoIt's abject poverty, it's not slavery per se but that poor guy will do anything for money
- rexpop 6y agoI see. Is it not also difficult to understand why you–an equally realized human with so many fingers and toes–would refuse to do chores for pennies? I recently read David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5,000 Years," and it helped explain why many find themselves (willingly?) shackled to menial labor.