“Those people up there sleep 15 to a room and have a sustenance existence. They aren’t doing it to be a cultural attraction, they actually have to fish to live. How sad. I immediately ran back to the other people like me to breaking news bulletin that there are other people in the world who don’t obsess about Javascript frameworks and convertible notes.”
“I spent some time with indigenous communities who still support themselves the same way they have even before my ancestors hit this continent, and I sat down with them, and listened to stories and partook of their hospitality. I still correspond with some of the friends I met, and I’m rounded out by the perspective I gained in people who are not like me.”
Think about why you typed the word “bad” behind conditions, or why aviators typed “sad”. This is the entire crux: it’s bad or sad in your culture and perspective. I dated a lovely woman who descended from the very Inuit tribes you two are hand waving at, and I have met no group of people more generous nor proud of their heritage, while acknowledging the difficulty of integrating into white people customs, than them. There is absolutely no consideration among either of you that you might be lacking perspective, might have something to learn, and instead sit back on your expensive computer judging a group of people you’ve never touched and explaining them. That is completely and irredeemably cancerous, and the continued disingenuous unwillingness of this community to even approach understanding that is making the entire fucking planet worse, especially now that it wields the megaphone of tech to enforce its culture worldwide.