Ibutho Inkosi
Irubo Kovu
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Posted - 2016.03.02 20:01:42 -
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An unfortunate fact of inequity in the real world is, affluent nations get games like these. "Developing" nations do not. It's like affluent nations get Cadillacs. "Developing" nations get Cadillacs on blocks. It is the nature of economic disparity. Trying to solve economic disparity by some charity foundation in a video game will only work out to getting PLEX for your buddies, but the remainder of the "developing" countries populations will still be going without.
Anyone really interested in the fact their friends can't afford this sort of leisure activity due to economic imbalances is better off not playing any game, and working their lives away struggling for equity. It's the fact this struggle is now seen as futile or only pursued by suckers that the working population now lags further behind and out of the main economy than it has since the days of empires and kings.
The kind of EVE I want has so much to do with the self-contained, Euro-centric western civ model there isn't any room for those who don't have ten dollars to feed themselves being accommodated at all. That's the nature of a winners and losers social paradigm. When developing countries decided to emulate the leaders in this "game" of economics, they preordained their own fates, and the money-grabbers laughed as they stood by and watched...then grabbed all the money.
It's rather strange for us to try to discuss this in this venue. You might as well be asking for a charity back nine at the local country club. It ain't gonna happen. The whole point of the country club is to luxuriate in the perks of winning. In a sense I do sympathize with your friends. However, as I said, if they're in a place so strapped economically that the ups and downs of macro-economics takes food from their tables, they have better things to do than play this game...more pressing things.
It takes someone of affluence to even propose this issue in this venue in this way.
Like the guy in Platoon said, "You have to be rich to talk like that."
If you think all this is unfair and inhumane...you have no business partaking in this perk of affluence. You should be out trying to effect a major shift in paradigm yourself...or it's just more "liberal" talk. Weep for the losers while you eat the peeled grapes.
As long as the tale of the hunt is told by the hunter, and not the lion, it will favor the hunter.
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