Put me into the natural environment and I will build my own home and grow my own food(assuming I know how to)

Poverty is created through the seperation of man from nature.

Instincts against a natural state is an oxymoron.

We have instincts to work, to create, to connect with other human beings, to share, to fight(within reason the fear of dying is another natural instinct that regulates some of the others)

We're social creatures that work together to benefit ourselves collectively.

A handful of people are straight up parasites and add nothing, produce no value, but instead extract the value and wealth from others. That's where poverty comes from.

The industrial revolution created poverty in the same way that the agricultural revolution created slavery.

A hunter gather or forest gardener tribe could have kept slaves but the slaves would have been useless to them.

An agricultural society can have one guy watching over 50 people chained together working in a field.

A non industrial society can have times of poverty caused by a drought or natural disaster, but an industrial society can sustain a whole segment of society living in constant prolonged poverty.

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Humans didn't just come into existence knowing how to build houses and grow food. It's completely natural for a human to just sit there and die if he doesn't use his mind to survive. Birds don't do that. That's why we have a term that separates us from animals. We aren't the same.

dogs are very close to us in this way, they seek outside validation for everything, and compete for the right to be the one making the rules and issuing the commands

this is the downside of being intelligent, you have to form a model in your brain for everything in order to interact with it, it's not preordained in your DNA