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Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth.[1] Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality,[2][3] risk of growing political bribery, and potential national decline.

The largest dam removal in U.S. history. So successful that the salmon that haven’t run freely in the river for literally over a century came back the next year. Not steady progress over a decade as expected, the very next salmon run they came home. No one alive saw salmon in that river outside the hatcheries kept by native’s tribes and the Department of Fish And Wildlife scientists desperately trying to save them. One of the activists who helped bring the suit spoke of their dying grandmother making them promise to bring the fish home, and they didn’t know how that was possible, but they spent decades doing it.

The legal basis for successfully suing the power company who owned the dams was Indigenous treaty rights to eat the fish. Eating the fish was the one thing in a century that succeeded in being a clear and legally binding right that superseded the desires of white capital and industry. I have been going to the public interest environmental law conference off and on for 20 years where a lot of organizing for Undam The Klamath happened. I’ve heard updates about every legal tact they tried as they happened, and they tried everything.

There are healthy, thriving salmon, trout, and lamprey in a rewilding and recovering Klamath River right now as a direct result of Indigenous people eating them. Of their legally binding right to eat them. They sure as fuck care more about those fish than any white vegan ever could. They are salmon people that the Creator sent Salmon to feed, while charging the People with protecting and stewarding them. It’s not possible to learn about salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest without learning this, and it’s unambiguously racist to dismiss this symbiotic relationship.

The white vegans are trying to get all hunting and fishing banned in Oregon, and that’s quite possibly the single most catastrophic thing that could be done to the animals here because we killed off all the major predators of creatures like deer and without anything hunting them their numbers will explode, eat all the vegetation, destroy the ecosystem, and then die along with everything else in that failing ecosystem. Controlled hunting of deer is vitally necessary for the deer to survive. This is something Native people know, but patronizing racist savior-complex white people refuse to listen to.

I have a whole collection of Oregon’s Public Broadcasting’s documentaries about Klamath River or the larger story of fish and people in the region. If you watch nothing else, watch Klamath Dams Are Coming Out, First Salmon Ceremony, After The Dams, and First Decent (Native made). It could not be clearer that the salmon are being protected and nourished by the people who eat them, and that stewardship is a massive part of their creation myths. But it contradicts political vegan dogma so they don’t listen.

the state's loss of control over their territories, as the people retreat away from the "pinnacles" of society of the cities;

a wide swathe of "wastelands", usually where either no one can live;

a sudden immense population depletion, leaving the majority population of most areas to be wild animals and/or subhuman mutants, or

tribalism depicted as handfuls of half-remebered anti-indigenous stereotypes (particularly strange ceremonies or people-eating, especially when its white people wearing these costumes in the story), or

a population of idiots, people whose lives in the apocalypse have lost them either accumulated human knowledge (metalworking, medicine, etc.) or knowledge of things like speech, walking upright, toileting, etc.

on the other hand, post apocalypse stories wherein the world is "saved" show this saving as:

a reconquest of lost territories--see world war z and the retaking of america, and the fact that apparently the counties after the zombies are on the same place on the map as before

a renewal of traditional western education--see the girl with all the gifts and the feral zombie children being educated by the typical british schoolteacher at the end

a revival of lost government services--see the postman and the "hope" that is brought by claims of us government remnants existing

literal, actual neocolonialism, where colonies are explicitly a part of societal recovery--see, unfortunately, a canticle for leibowitz.

the complete and total slaughter of all nonhuman or subhuman populations in an area, usually of zombies but occasionally also of mutants--see hiero's journey

i hesitate to conflate the two mostly because im uncomfortable with conflating zombies and mutants with indigenous people, though i have no doubts that there are authors who used zombies or mutants as stand-ins for indigenous people, but even in world war z we see the way us soldiers deride the survivors who dont want to re-join the united states, the derision towards those who refuse to be taken in by the colonial machine--and thats not even to fucking mention the israel chapter.

Not seeing many people talk about this on Tumblr, so gonna spread the word myself: Webtoon is going to start using AI for translations and an AI chat bot with comic characters. If you're against this you should delete your account, and if you are publishing on the website, you should consider moving to other alternatives and especially having your own website to host your comic.

Also needless to say that Webtoon can absolutely afford to hire translators, this is just yet another way to not pay the people who are making the company behind Webtoon absurdly rich.

And for the people who might see this as a good decision: