It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Living is risking.
The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that you'll have little in the future.
What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
People need to take a little bit more risk.
It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.
Those who own much have much to fear.
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.
People need to learn to live with more risk.
People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.