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minus-squareMythra@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoNot everyone is capable of organizing. Not everyone is capable of violence. And humans will always prioritize themselves and their loved ones over strangers. Migration is often seen as the only way to have a future at all.
minus-squareinterdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·18 hours agoOf course, when you live under an oppressive extractive hegemon you at least want to live where the resources are flowing to rather than from. That doesn’t have to mean you live in the imperial core, the periphery might be tolerable, but not the bad lands nor the borderlands.
Not everyone is capable of organizing. Not everyone is capable of violence. And humans will always prioritize themselves and their loved ones over strangers. Migration is often seen as the only way to have a future at all.
Of course, when you live under an oppressive extractive hegemon you at least want to live where the resources are flowing to rather than from.
That doesn’t have to mean you live in the imperial core, the periphery might be tolerable, but not the bad lands nor the borderlands.