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"The world is an unfair place.
In the very beginning there was a collective understanding of joint ownership and joint distribution. I guess you could think of it as communism in a way, right? Everyone hunted together to support their community and they all shared the spoils. They probably never really ran into too many issues. Probably because the community acted as one family and they never really had anything like an inheritance or passing things on to just their blood.
But then they got smart. They started farming and keeping livestock, and soon food was everywhere right? Now we have a problem. This was when the concept of ownership began to emerge. You get where I’m going with this? Now the stronger ones began to monopolize things like tools, farmland, horses, cows…everything. And the rest..well..yeah.
One day, these guys in power asked themselves. Hey. Why is it that I can survive without having to work all day while those weaklings do? And that was when they realized it. Because they were just a different class. And that was how they turned into the upper class. The elite. The noblemen. Because they were just born with better blood.
After experiencing lots of ups and downs, modern civilization came to a new conclusion. All men are born equal.
Honest to God there was a time when people really believed this.
From there, capitalist societies drew a line and said this line…this line is the divisor between success and loserdom. They now needed a new special word for those special people who crossed the line of success. This was how the mythical word “effort” was born.
It was genius. People were now slaves to the word and convinced themselves anything was possible with just the right amount of effort.
Now if you were poor, it was all your fault. It was because you just didn’t put in enough effort. You loser.
‘I’m different from them. I put in all this effort and came all the way here, while those lazy people sat on their asses and ended up there.’
An era arose where people easily pointed their fingers and called others who worked over 18 hours a day lazy bums."
-Evolution Theory of the Hunter
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