At a deeper level though, it's about the ones in charge placating their victims by giving them something that won't actually help them out of their bad situation. And also maybe that knowledge without action won't change anything. That kind of situation and lesson could be applied to so many things, like rich people telling poor people to go to college to get degrees that don't actually help enough with pulling themselves out of poverty because in reality the game is rigged.

Stuff like that, but that's just my interpretation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I think the reality is a lot more subtle than many people who’ve commented have implied. It’s not necessarily that people are being taught a flawed economic model that keeps them in poverty or are given advice that will explicitly keep them poor (though that absolutely does happen), but that the whole model is predicated on the idea that economics is the best, most meaningful or only framework by which to view the world.

The metaphor is a bit of an insult to apex predators, as they do actually serve a purpose within the ecosystem and biologically need to consume prey (also animals aren’t moral agents, depending on who you ask I guess).