A social post from @lifeboatacademy which says: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." ― Frédéric Bastiat

Extraction doesn’t always feel violent.
Sometimes it becomes lawful, moral, ordinary. This is why it matters to notice what we’ve absorbed as normal, and to create a little pause before reacting.

Full reflection here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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