I chatted with a podcaster about Eve Online a few months ago, that episode just came out today for anyone who might be interested in it.

https://crossingzebras.com/new-eden-story-time-episode-6-with-johnny-chemo/


Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck.”
-Robert Heinlein