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Sorry, my brain wrote it phonetically in gringospeak.

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OP, this is absolutely a Google Translate image of a French ABC book into English.

Arbre is tree

Cheval is horse

Etoille is star

Vache is cow

Gateau is cake

Roue is wheel

Edit: le typo

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It’s Google Translate, from French I think.

Tree= Arb Horse = Cheval Cow = vache

I can’t see the while thing while I comment, but I know a Translate image when I see it.

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This meme started on photocopiers and smelled of cigarettes for it’s first 20 years of life.

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Explain how that works with a village of 350 people 4k from a paved road, where no one can or does work outside of the village doing farming work.

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I know, right?

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Everyone works, it’s just a matter of on what.

In the community where I lived, usually the guys did the farming, which was back-breaking work, leaning over hoeing land manually. Men would also raise livestock, be tailors, teachers, traders, barbers, and a few other jobs. Don’t get too wound up over “traders” - a guy would borrow money to walk to a large town and buy things he would sell to neighbors out of his home. He would do this until so many people said they would pay him back for the things from the “store” that he didn’t have any money to buy things in town anymore, so the town would be without things like salt or kerosene for lanterns for a couple weeks, and then people would get fed up, and one new guy would start the cycle over again.

Women pounded the millet and sorghum into flour to make food, did gardening, made every meal, raised the kids, pulled water from the well, and some other micro-level cottage industry-ish type things.

But people worked every day. Old people worked every day. Unless you got malaria or had a severe injury, every day was work until you died, and even then you tried to do something because there was always so much work to do.

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That really isn’t the case for large parts of rural Sub-Sahan Africa. For literally millions of people, they are growing crops basically about the same as their ancestors, in the same area. Maybe now they have mobile phones. It was ALWAYS hard labor.

Is everyone in this thread rich American college kids or something? Why do you all think the natural state of the world is Utopian paradise where leopards and impallas are best friends?

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Lol, so desperate to be the victim of an imaginary rich person that you don’t even understand that it universally takes work to do things like eat food.

How do you think people got food 10,000 years ago? Or 30,000?

Do you think being a hunter-gatherer society is a vacation? Who were the rich people before money was invented that apparently caused things like drought?

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You should tell this to subsistence farmers living in Sub-saharan Africa that farm nearly every calorie they consume. It’s a negotiation between them, the earth, and the uncaring sky. Same as its been for millennia. No rich people necessarily involved.

Are they free because no rich people are involved?

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