socialist scumOriginally Posted by spoonitnow
I'll be 100% serious.
If you have power over someone, and you want to help them, then one option is to extract resources from them. You then use these resources to help them. The effect is that you are using their resources to help them in a much better way than they would have used the resources to help themselves (through a more skilled/efficient usage, wasting fewer of those resources, etc). Even if you take a percentage of those resources for your time and effort, then they can still end up being much, much better off for it.
Related reading: Mutualism (biology) - Wikipedia
On a basic level, helping someone is all about changing how their resources are managed. This might involve giving them more resources in the short term, but there always has to be a long-term net gain for that investment. The reason this gain is necessary is for sustainability and for providing wide-scale incentive to help those who are "without" in the first place.
Getting back to your thought: If people are fundamentally stupid, you can still take advantage of them (as in pulling resources from them) and help them at the same time.
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