I agree with you… but I don’t see it as a rhetorical question at all. The greedy folks who crave more riches, more things, more power, more more more, have successfully bamboozled most people into thinking our current system is natural, “just the way the world works,” that there are no realistic alternatives. That was drilled into our heads over and over since we were kids (I know I heard it a lot.)
But it isn’t true. And that’s the point. Once you realize the why we don’t is due to greed, due to choice, we can realize it doesn’t have to be that way-- we could choose another path. That’s how the question can radicalize folks… hopefully.
I’ll just add that there are games where stealing from an NPC can get you killed with no way to fight back, because they don’t bother with these PC notions like hitpoints or death. Some people ought to watch out.
Of course you can easily recognize most true NPCs by their tendency to always say the same thing. “Hello my friend, stay a while and listen.” “Shorts are comfy and easy to wear!” “Actually DEI is the real racism.” That kind of thing.
I am reading some material that was assigned as prep work for an online class i’m taking for work. It is about handling and resolving conflict with difficult people within your organization, and in the material i’m reading i see this:
Organizations have operated for many years with broken processes and dated methods for resolving
conflict in the workplace. Historically, supervisors operated from the power phase where disputes and crisis were resolved by leadership. However, over time employers smartened up and provided rights for employees who wanted to be unionized and provided contract agreements or arbitration (Ury, Brett, & Goldberg, 1989). This led to long wait times and when a crisis was finally heard, a path towards resolutions was not even agreed upon by all parties
This sure as hell reads like a subtle anti-union statement
