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tankenmateyesterday at 7:52 PM1 replyview on HN

`Not a forcing function unless you’re levered`; but every one is levered, you aren't born with all the housing, food, and water you'll need for the rest of your life. Everyone is born with a net negative of the necessities of life, the difference though is that a very small minority are bequeathed this by well heeled ancestors. But for the overwhelming majority there is a life long struggle to afford to live a suitable life.


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 11:45 AM

> but every one is levered, you aren't born with all the housing, food, and water you'll need for the rest of your life

This is not leverage.

> Everyone is born with a net negative of the necessities of life, the difference though is that a very small minority are bequeathed this by well heeled ancestors

By your definition, no, they too are born in entropic deficit, it's just satisfied immediately by their parents. (This is how humans work.)