Not really a title...

I had to write down an incomplete thought and this was the most convenient place. It makes sense to protect a culture that is actually successful from change. Growing up in a privileged community, this was a kind of theme. If through hard work and good management of resources, a group of people build for themselves something blessed, it only makes sense that they must protect the core of their culture from both the desperate and the opportunistic. But there should be a clear distinction between a successful culture and an exploitative one, though it may be that in the modern world, such a distinction does not exist. We all get our affordable dry goods, etc. from impoverished nations, where the workers are paid next to nothing for their toil. What looks like 'success' may merely be the advantageous positioning of oneself in nearer the top of the economic food chain, not necessarily more work or better management. To think otherwise is akin to the Gospel of Wealth: your riches show you're beloved of God, and nothing can disprove that, as has been for practical purposes shown.