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People are brainpower and labor. They are fungible. Its politics and religion that tries to make you think this person with a brain and two hands is fundamentally different than this other person with a brain and two hands.



That's the Kang and Kodos Theory of Humans.

Actual humans have ideas, values, beliefs, religions, obligations, loyalties, desires, etc...

And they also differ a lot in brainpower and ability (and desire) to work!


Sure, theres a distribution for everytbing. But on the whole I dont believe these distributions are much different. If anything its the born american in the coddled middle class suburban upbringing thats likely to slack off and not ever have learned what hard work actually means. They are playing roblox and pushing the average age to start driving back by the year, while a kid their age half the world away might be laying brick 12 hours a day knowing if they don’t they don’t eat that night.




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