Sadly not an actual line from FFT, but it fits the tone tbqh

        • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
          3·
          1 年前

          Yeah, the dude on the left I don’t recognize at all. Dycedarg also has a toupee of sorts and doesn’t appear in any of these “outside” scenes in Chapter 1

          From memory, that scene has Alma and Tieta (Teta? Delita’s sister) approach the 3 young soldiers (Ramza, Delita, Algus) and Zalbaag gives some info that Ramza was looking for, waving his hand afterwards.

  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
    71·
    1 年前

    This distinction isn’t as profound as it seems. Why do humans accumulate extreme wealth? Why does a fox engage in surplus killing when it gets into a henhouse? The answer to these two questions is the same: nature was solving one kind of problem (scarcity) in a way that utterly fails to handle the opposite problem (abundance).

    Now you might say “billionaires are different from foxes, billionaires have a choice!” But then if they chose differently, they wouldn’t become billionaires in the first place. Thus all billionaires are people who could not resist the lure of wealth (for whatever reason).

    It’s a selective process, no different in mechanics from natural selection. Hence the meaninglessness of the natural/man-made distinction here.

    • Genius@lemmy.zip
      2·
      1 年前

      Maybe we should engage in some natural selection of our own. I hear the French have some revolutionary techniques for it.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    1211·
    1 年前

    Of course poverty is natural. That’s why humans have always banded together to create wealth.

    Frist thing a tribal society does is try to store up food and create tools to get more food.

    Then they try to get clothes and shelter.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        72·
        1 年前

        And how many children died before the age of five? How many people died of starvation?

        People stopped living in caves and built farms because they were tired of dying.

        There was never a golden age. We might be able to build one in the future, but life in the past was terrible.

          • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
            31·
            1 年前

            As per Britannica, Poverty is the state of lacking a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.

            No one is born with material possessions, and the cave folks did their best to get hold of spears, tents, and other wealth so they wouldn’t starve.

            After a few thousand years of hard work a few tribes managed to have some stability. They possessed great knowledge.

              • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
                52·
                1 年前

                You’re confusing “Poverty” and “Inequality.”

                The situation you’re upset about is “inequality.” The 99.9% getting screwed by a system that denies them the fruits of their labors.

                You are forced to use a 'strawman" argument because you know I’m right, and lack the sense to just admit it.

                And using an emoji always shows how carefully you’ve considered the other person’s opinion.