I’m really looking for what may have been the driving motivation and reward. The focus is on your personal drive for the interest and what you gained from it.

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  • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Probably the biggest takeaway I have is that poverty culture largely forms the flavor of any community, and communities without poverty have no flavor to them.

    That’s such a succinct way to put something I feel like I’ve read 400 page books about. I’d also never thought about it as one thing before: I’ve definitely had the thought that famines make the best cuisines and boredom the best games, but I’ve never put it together as a general rule.