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@ Kayne
2025-04-27 08:39:09
Put me into the natural environment and I will build my own home and grow my own food(assuming I know how to)
Poverty is created through the seperation of man from nature.
Instincts against a natural state is an oxymoron.
We have instincts to work, to create, to connect with other human beings, to share, to fight(within reason the fear of dying is another natural instinct that regulates some of the others)
We're social creatures that work together to benefit ourselves collectively.
A handful of people are straight up parasites and add nothing, produce no value, but instead extract the value and wealth from others. That's where poverty comes from.
The industrial revolution created poverty in the same way that the agricultural revolution created slavery.
A hunter gather or forest gardener tribe could have kept slaves but the slaves would have been useless to them.
An agricultural society can have one guy watching over 50 people chained together working in a field.
A non industrial society can have times of poverty caused by a drought or natural disaster, but an industrial society can sustain a whole segment of society living in constant prolonged poverty.