Post by Myth on May 10, 2021 15:31:19 GMT
Location: What used to be Brazil
People often make the mistake of underestimating Pacha. Then again, Pacha Inc. wants you to. Its easy to get caught up in the feel-good branding campaign that their marketing team spent trillions on. Pacha: The planets green thumb, the good guys who are going to save us from our own destruction. Never-mind the fact that they control the limited supply of essentially every humans basic needs, and exercise that power to decide who thrives and well.... who withers and decays. Even the vultures depend on Pacha for their scraps.
It's hard to believe that Pacha Inc. started out as a rainforest preservation effort. Some trust fund baby with a heart of gold was buying up the amazon like it was going out of style. And maybe it was. We all more or less knew we'd overpopulated the planet, caused global warming, and drove our ecosystem extinct with deforestation and all that. Hell I knew, but what was I supposed to do about it?
By the time we started feeling the ramifications; Pacha had dominion over the richest deposit of natural resources left on the face of the Earth. They were fast becoming the worlds leading supplier of agricultural produce for everything from citrus, cassava and avocados to cashews, brazil nuts, spices, sugar, coffee, tea, cocoa, just to name a few. Surprising to many was the realization that they were already the worlds largest supplier of cattle and the richest exporter of beef, and with the barest effort managed to gain dominion in the poultry market too. A once rich philanthropist who drove himself broke for a good cause was more than happy to leverage his investment to refill his pockets, and some would argue that was his plan all along.
Then came the pharmaceutical companies - desperate for materials that could no longer be found anywhere else - and they let Pacha name its price. With his wealth multiplying exponentially, the CEO, his family and board of directors were able to branch out and buy up more real-estate. Pacha wasn't just a rainforest preservation company anymore; they'd become an international conglomerate with an unprecedented monopoly on multiple subsidiaries controlling the worlds most essential supply chains. Before you knew it; they owned the Savanna, they owned the majority of the worlds oil reserves, and they owned the parts of the Arctic they presumed were valuable. With Pacha's business model - I don't think its even possible for someone like you or me to live "off-grid" anymore. The land your standing on right now... Good chance Pacha owns it.
Knowing all that, you might be wondering why then would they even bother sponsoring expeditions to Astreus. The answer is staring you right in the face. Their success has always been rooted in owning the very land itself and by extension all the content that land harbors. Make no mistake: That includes the living creatures that sustain themselves on it.
Yeah, I'm lookin' at you. We're no more than beasts of burden to them; which is why, if you can convince them you've got a profitable skill that benefits them; they'll sponsor your relocation to the new world where the quality of life is better than here. At least, so they say. If nothing else, we know it'll be less crowded. Imagine living like Kings on an alien world, practically all by ourselves except for the few hundred to a couple thousand others on the whole of the planet. Tempting, isn't it?
People often make the mistake of underestimating Pacha. Then again, Pacha Inc. wants you to. Its easy to get caught up in the feel-good branding campaign that their marketing team spent trillions on. Pacha: The planets green thumb, the good guys who are going to save us from our own destruction. Never-mind the fact that they control the limited supply of essentially every humans basic needs, and exercise that power to decide who thrives and well.... who withers and decays. Even the vultures depend on Pacha for their scraps.
It's hard to believe that Pacha Inc. started out as a rainforest preservation effort. Some trust fund baby with a heart of gold was buying up the amazon like it was going out of style. And maybe it was. We all more or less knew we'd overpopulated the planet, caused global warming, and drove our ecosystem extinct with deforestation and all that. Hell I knew, but what was I supposed to do about it?
By the time we started feeling the ramifications; Pacha had dominion over the richest deposit of natural resources left on the face of the Earth. They were fast becoming the worlds leading supplier of agricultural produce for everything from citrus, cassava and avocados to cashews, brazil nuts, spices, sugar, coffee, tea, cocoa, just to name a few. Surprising to many was the realization that they were already the worlds largest supplier of cattle and the richest exporter of beef, and with the barest effort managed to gain dominion in the poultry market too. A once rich philanthropist who drove himself broke for a good cause was more than happy to leverage his investment to refill his pockets, and some would argue that was his plan all along.
Then came the pharmaceutical companies - desperate for materials that could no longer be found anywhere else - and they let Pacha name its price. With his wealth multiplying exponentially, the CEO, his family and board of directors were able to branch out and buy up more real-estate. Pacha wasn't just a rainforest preservation company anymore; they'd become an international conglomerate with an unprecedented monopoly on multiple subsidiaries controlling the worlds most essential supply chains. Before you knew it; they owned the Savanna, they owned the majority of the worlds oil reserves, and they owned the parts of the Arctic they presumed were valuable. With Pacha's business model - I don't think its even possible for someone like you or me to live "off-grid" anymore. The land your standing on right now... Good chance Pacha owns it.
Knowing all that, you might be wondering why then would they even bother sponsoring expeditions to Astreus. The answer is staring you right in the face. Their success has always been rooted in owning the very land itself and by extension all the content that land harbors. Make no mistake: That includes the living creatures that sustain themselves on it.
Yeah, I'm lookin' at you. We're no more than beasts of burden to them; which is why, if you can convince them you've got a profitable skill that benefits them; they'll sponsor your relocation to the new world where the quality of life is better than here. At least, so they say. If nothing else, we know it'll be less crowded. Imagine living like Kings on an alien world, practically all by ourselves except for the few hundred to a couple thousand others on the whole of the planet. Tempting, isn't it?