Published: 2025-10-29
Last Updated: 2025-10-29
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People have different concepts of resources that make conversations on resource deprivation difficult to the point of incivility and demands on property lines and allowed interactions. Resources are generally things that are used to survive, live, or thrive. In a culture that values thriving as a public policy, resource theft can be viewed as a specially heinous human behavior.
This can lead to conflict including with the government since they are viewed to be just as responsible for miserable conditions that are no longer representative of even underdeveloped nations. Thriving is a human expectation in nearly any area with a government. Depriving a person or groups of resources they use to live within their normal context is considered to be subhuman behavior because it leads to violent conditions. The people causing the provocation, are considered to be at fault for the human environment when such incidents occur.
While resources are normally spoken of as vast natural resources with infinite quantity or value. On a realistic scale, all resources are finite. An individual person is required to obtain a specific amount of resources to live like a human. Other resources they have available to do this is limited by time, exhaustion, interest, and needs. Humans have shown that they would rather attend to socialization needs than busy work meaning that work beyond what is necessary for rent, food, and utilities is viewed as optional and the required work is most often desired to be remote, independent, and with a to do list that does not require a supervisor.
ResourcesIn order of preference people are willing to trade a limited amount of time for other resources such as money or credit. Either one is normally used as a measurement of contribution or value of exchange. Once the money or credit has been obtained, it is not appropriate to audit people for the source or context of their money or credit. This becomes its own resource that can be used to trade for other resources. Even in nations that are starting to develop within that past 15 years, this is a well understood concept, it is the way humans build their environments.
When a person or group deprives another person or group of their time or resources, it is viewed as a form of detention. This requires due process in the United States and in other most developed nations. Resource theft is viewed as a form of detention globally, it requires that the person use their time to replace the resources that were removed without agreement or cause. It may also cause the person to use resources that were allocated for rest to be able to complete an exchange to replace the resources that were lost. In the worst circumstances, this is a never ending process that leads to lifelong deprivation of required resources.
One of the behaviors that can be improved in both developed and developing nations is to monitor interactions between human groups for resource theft. This does not require a central authority and is normally a self reflection on behaviors. If there is a grievance filed with an official, that normally requires at least some documentation and most people tend to avoid those interactions if necessary because it can lead to requiring extensive documentation. This however can lead to ongoing resource theft under threats of not wanting to be inconvenienced by having to talk to an official. The cycle can end up perpetuating for an entire lifetime, and this ultimately leads to conflict.
The biggest challenge of communicating requirements in developed nations is the process of translating concepts of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors throughout certain areas. Globally, people in need or with requests for additional resources must remain complacent for periods of time in order to maintain a status of civility and to reduce the risk of being processed as a combatant through their human activities.