@ainmosni wow, some of these comments are full of….assumptions. Depends on who "we" is.

THOUSANDS of cultures lived (and still do) without exploiting people. Ya just haven't heard of them because they don't fit the narratives that colonizing cultures tend to want people to focus on...

and that might be because well, Western Civ WANTS to normalize its ways of being as "normal"

even when the ways are and have been just disgustingly exploitative -when compared to others.