{"id":422511,"date":"2026-10-22T07:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=422511"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:32:52","slug":"the-turd-eaters-france-gives-us-a-lesson-on-the-pillager-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=422511","title":{"rendered":"The Turd-Eaters: France Gives Us a Lesson on the Pillager Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the years I have written frequently about what I call the \u201cPillager Class\u201d and the \u201cProducer Class\u201d in an attempt to explore the reasons why certain people, groups and cultures always seem to turn to looting and destruction rather than building anything of value of their own.<\/p>\n

It is a threat the west has been dealing with for thousands of years: We engineer and create and plan for the future, and instead of doing the same, the pillager class decides it\u2019s easier to take what we have. Sometimes they are subtle like a parasite, and sometimes they\u2019re not so subtle, like a swarm of locusts.<\/p>\n

There are numerous theories on why this happens. Some think it stems from genetics, others from low IQ, others think it\u2019s purely a cultural phenomenon, and some people argue that it\u2019s a mere reactionary response to poverty. I suspect it\u2019s a combination of all these things. At bottom though, it seems that certain groups are simply born with the pillager instinct; a subset of the populace perpetually stuck in scavenger limbo.<\/p>\n

A good comparison to understand this is the classic \u201clottery winner\u201d dilemma. Data suggests that around 70% of all lottery winners lose every dime they won in 5 years or less. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s thousands of dollars or millions of dollars; they can\u2019t seem to keep their hands on wealth.<\/p>\n

They go from cash windfall to bankruptcy and financial failure so quickly, winning the lottery is often treated like a curse rather than good luck. This happens because they are incapable of planning for tomorrow. Their brains are ostensibly stunted, and they can only think in terms of the present moment. They are doomed to live in poverty because they are incapable of growing beyond their most base desires.<\/p>\n

The pillager class is very similar. You can take them out of the global ghettos, bring them to your home and give them every opportunity imaginable to improve their circumstances, and yet, they will always choose thievery and barbarism instead. The only thing that might change is the complexity of their crimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read it. Over the years I have written frequently about what I call the \u201cPillager Class\u201d and the \u201cProducer Class\u201d in an attempt to explore the reasons why certain people, groups and cultures always seem to turn to looting and destruction rather than building anything of value of their own. It is a threat the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-frontal-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422513,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422511\/revisions\/422513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}