And it’s a real thing, resource scarcity as a child changes the timeline you think on. You know how everyone laughed at the people doing the “chase glitch” which was just check/wire fraud and incredibly easy to prosecute?
They seemed stupid because obviously there was going to be consequences, but resource scarcity means tomorrow’s problems aren’t real problems yet.
If you don’t know if you’ll be alive in aweek, consequences in a month literally don’t factor into your thinking. That’s why Pay Day loans and credit cards are such big business.
It is completely normal, it’s how our brains are wired, and for 99.999999999% of human existence it was a solid strategy.
Let’s not pretend like these predatory businesses and schemes are naturally occurring either. There was a deliberate and concerted effort to create the conditions of scarcity and demand for these shitty short term solutions.
it was a solid strategy
For 99% of human history if someone deliberately tried to create conditions of poverty for the majority of a population they would be deposed by that population. We have been turned into livestock.
That’s our economic system not our healthcare…
And it’s a real thing, resource scarcity as a child changes the timeline you think on. You know how everyone laughed at the people doing the “chase glitch” which was just check/wire fraud and incredibly easy to prosecute?
They seemed stupid because obviously there was going to be consequences, but resource scarcity means tomorrow’s problems aren’t real problems yet.
If you don’t know if you’ll be alive in aweek, consequences in a month literally don’t factor into your thinking. That’s why Pay Day loans and credit cards are such big business.
It is completely normal, it’s how our brains are wired, and for 99.999999999% of human existence it was a solid strategy.
But the wealthy exploit it.
Let’s not pretend like these predatory businesses and schemes are naturally occurring either. There was a deliberate and concerted effort to create the conditions of scarcity and demand for these shitty short term solutions.
For 99% of human history if someone deliberately tried to create conditions of poverty for the majority of a population they would be deposed by that population. We have been turned into livestock.