https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Omelas

Utopia requiring the perpetual suffering of a child.

Actually pretty fucked up they didn't credit her, it's almost the same story

  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    2 years ago

    It is literally the foundation this capitalist world order is built upon :parenti:. The wealth of the western world is gained from the exploitation of the global south, and this philosophy of "equal exchange" in life: that one must suffer so other may prosper; is nothing more than a cowardly attempt to justify this system.