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In a sense, they are right. Survival is about meeting your immediate essential needs. Of course, they are also very wrong. Opportunities to escape poverty are
by II2II 3y ago
In a sense, they are right. Survival is about meeting your immediate essential needs.
Of course, they are also very wrong. Opportunities to escape poverty are lost when you are only trying to fulfill your immediate needs, then there are the psychological ramifications of being vulnerable and in constant need for aid from others.
There is a reason why we have built our technological societies. It goes well beyond the personal gratification we get from gadgets or fine foods. We do it because it offers security of being and the ability to make our world a better place.
- wheelerof4te 3y ago"There is a reason why we have built our technological societies. It goes well beyond the personal gratification we get from gadgets or fine foods. We do it because it offers security of being and the ability to make our world a better place." "We" haven't built anything. A group of very powerful people planned this locked-down, dystopian world we currently live in and worked on achieving that plan. You and I are simply living in the world they envisioned.
- FooBarBizBazz 3y agoIt's been going on since at least Enclosure, and probably since the dawn of agriculture.