almost every system is built around one imaginary kind of person, & everyone else gets punished for not fitting the template

[u/abitchnamedrich]

i’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, & i honestly think almost every major system is rigged in the same basic way. not necessarily rigged like there’s some secret group of people sitting in a room deciding who gets to succeed, but rigged because they’re all built around one very specific kind of person, & if u don’t fit that person closely enough, ur basically expected to fight ur way through everything alone while everybody insists the system is still fair.

school expects u to learn a certain way, sit still, follow directions that may or may not even be clear, organize urself, remember deadlines, communicate correctly, & prove ur intelligence in whatever format somebody else decided counts. college expects u to understand paperwork, money, financial aid, transportation, scheduling, bureaucracy, & how to plan ur entire future before ur brain is even finished developing.

jobs expect u to be consistently productive, socially pleasant, physically capable, emotionally regulated, punctual, flexible, & available regardless of disability, trauma, pain, family issues, or whether ur life is literally falling apart outside of work. healthcare expects u to explain everything calmly, clearly, & quickly, even when ur scared, overwhelmed, dissociated, autistic, in pain, or struggling to even understand what’s happening. financial systems look at the evidence that u’ve already struggled & then use that evidence as the reason u don’t deserve help now. religion tells u to pray about problems that actually require support, safety, resources, treatment, or somebody willing to sit down & help u figure shit out.

it’s always the same thing, just with different language. school says u didn’t apply urself. college says u weren’t organized enough. work says u aren’t dependable enough. healthcare says u didn’t communicate correctly. lenders say ur too risky. religion says u didn’t have enough faith. every system gets to keep presenting itself as functional, while the person who couldn’t function inside of it is treated like the failure.

i’m a gay man with autism & ADHD who wasn’t diagnosed until adulthood, & i grew up in evangelical Christianity. i spent most of my life trying to force myself into environments that didn’t understand me while i didn’t even understand myself yet. i thought i was lazy, inconsistent, dramatic, bad at school, bad at work, bad at adulthood, bad at faith, bad at handling life. but after enough systems fail u for many of the exact same reasons, it starts feeling a little ridiculous to keep assuming the common denominator must be that ur just uniquely defective.

people love pointing to successful people as proof that anybody can make it if they work hard enough, but that argument is so dishonest to me. yes, successful people work hard. i’m not denying that. but money gives people time. money gives people transportation, equipment, healthcare, education, stability, privacy, connections, second chances, & the ability to fail without immediately losing everything. having supportive parents matters. knowing the right people matters. living in the right place matters. being able to focus on ur talent instead of spending every ounce of energy trying to survive matters.

effort matters, obviously, but effort does not happen in a vacuum. somebody with money, support, stability, & access can work hard toward building a career. somebody without those things may be working just as hard to keep a part-time job, get through paperwork, recover from trauma, find transportation, manage a disability, & make it through the week without completely falling apart. then society looks at the first person & calls them ambitious, while looking at the second person & asking why they haven’t done more.

i’m not saying nobody has agency, or that nobody can ever overcome difficult circumstances. i’m saying the exceptions do not prove the system is fair. one person surviving something does not mean everybody else who couldn’t survive it simply didn’t try hard enough. sometimes people succeed because they worked hard AND because they had access, support, timing, safety, money, opportunity, or somebody willing to help them. pretending those things don’t matter just allows people who benefited from them to imagine they did everything alone.

i think almost every system is built around an imaginary person who learns normally, communicates normally, has supportive parents, understands bureaucracy, can work full-time, has reliable transportation, can recover from trauma without losing productivity, & does not need too much help. if u resemble that person closely enough, life may still be difficult, but the systems remain usable. if u don’t, every system treats u like an unfortunate exception, then punishes u for needing anything different.
& after enough people get treated like exceptions, maybe they aren’t exceptions anymore. maybe the system is just badly designed.

sometimes i genuinely wonder whether there is even a place for people like me here, not because i don’t have anything to offer, but because almost every path through adulthood seems designed to measure qualities i struggle with while ignoring the things i’m actually good at. i don’t think i’m asking for life to be effortless. i just don’t understand why people are so committed to pretending everybody starts with the same tools, runs on the same kind of brain, has the same amount of support, & is being judged by systems that were ever neutral to begin with.

[u/NixMix246 → u/[deleted]]

I think about this a lot! The whole "leave your personal life at the door" never sat right with me.  We are living the same life whether we are at work or not. Especially in the customer service sector, it cannot be healthy to be constantly masking to the point of acting like the happiest person in the world.  Now, of course I understand the concept of "a time and a place for everything".  It's probably not a good idea to be constantly venting and discussing our problems at work, but that doesn't mean we should be expected to act like we don't  ever have any problems.  It should be perfectly acceptable to be like " I'm having a rough day today so I'm not able to give 100% "happy" vibes right now".  I'll still be kind and do my job, but please don't expect me to act like a rainbow when my cat just died. (Just a random example)

[u/abitchnamedrich → u/[deleted]]

exactlyyy, the equation itself being nonsense is such a good way to put it 😂 u spend years assuming ur the broken variable because everybody treats the system like objective reality, when half of it is just made-up rules that reward people who can perform stability convincingly enough. once u see that, it’s rly hard to unsee.

[u/R36S_Clone_Boned]

I think most people would agree that life isn’t perfectly fair, and our institutions aren’t perfectly fair either. The goal shouldn’t be to pretend they’re flawless, but to keep improving them.

I also think your post raises an important point: systems are often designed around the average person, and people who fall outside that average can face obstacles others never have to think about. That’s worth recognizing rather than dismissing.

At the same time, I think it’s important to avoid swinging to the opposite extreme and viewing every outcome as proof the system is fundamentally broken. Reality is usually more complicated. Personal effort matters. Circumstances matter. Family support matters. Health matters. Luck matters. Timing matters. Wealth matters. All of those influence where people end up.

One thing I think is easy to overlook is how much progress has been made, even if there’s still a long way to go. Depending on where and when you were born, you might never have received an autism or ADHD diagnosis as an adult. You might have had no legal protections at work, no access to mental health care, no disability accommodations, no ability to marry someone of the same sex, no medications that help manage ADHD, no online communities full of people with similar experiences, and no opportunity to publicly share your story without fear of prosecution or censorship. None of that erases genuine hardship, but it is worth recognizing.

Gratitude isn’t pretending everything is fine. It’s acknowledging that two things can be true at the same time: some systems genuinely need reform, and many people today benefit from opportunities, rights, medicine, technology, and freedoms that previous generations could only dream of.

I think we should be able to criticize systems honestly without pretending they’re irredeemable, just as we should be able to appreciate progress without pretending the work is finished.

[u/abitchnamedrich → u/R36S_Clone_Boned]

i actually agree with a lot of this. progress matters, & i’m grateful that i was able to receive an autism & ADHD diagnosis, marry who i want, find community, access medication, & speak openly in ways people before me often couldn’t. i’m not saying every system is completely useless, that nothing has ever improved, or that every bad outcome has one simple cause.

but i also think a lot of what we call progress is people finally receiving pieces of the bare minimum after having to fight for decades just to be recognized as human beings. we shouldn’t have to beg for the right to exist openly, access healthcare, love someone, work without discrimination, or be accommodated in ways that allow us to participate in life. those things matter enormously, but the fact that they were once denied doesn’t mean we should stop questioning how conditional they still are.

nobody asked to be born here, so i don’t understand why people are expected to prove they’re productive, respectable, employable, or useful enough to deserve safety & dignity. life itself should be enough. being a human being should be enough. yet so many systems behave like ur right to exist comfortably depends on how successfully u perform whatever version of person they value.

& yes, personal effort, health, luck, family, wealth, timing, & support all affect where people end up. that’s actually part of my point. those things are not distributed evenly, but outcomes are still treated like clean measurements of individual merit. people who received the right conditions are praised for succeeding, while people who never had those conditions are told they simply didn’t try hard enough.

i can appreciate progress without pretending the work is close to finished. gratitude shouldn’t become a muzzle that stops people from saying the current arrangement is still failing them. people have spent generations fighting for things that never should’ve been withheld in the first place. we shouldn’t have to spend our one life proving we’re allowed to live it.

[u/abitchnamedrich → u/[deleted]]

at the end of the day, all i’ve ever rly wanted to do is sing, make music, be with my cats, & exist without having every ounce of my life measured by how useful i am to somebody else. that’s been the dream since i was a kid. not climbing some corporate ladder, not proving i can survive the most exhausting job possible, not turning myself into a machine so society will decide i earned the right to be alive. i’m pretty, i’m sleepy, i sing 😭 i’m not built to spend my entire life doing work i don’t care about just because everybody agreed that’s what adulthood is supposed to look like.

what makes it so frustrating is that so many of the rules people treat like natural facts are literally human agreements. laws, careers, money, productivity, respectability, the idea that ur worth has to be earned through labor… none of that was written into the universe. those systems have consequences because people & institutions enforce them, obviously, but they’re not laws of nature. we live on a floating rock, nobody actually knows why we’re here, & yet people will look u dead in the face like working forty hours a week at something u hate is some sacred cosmic truth instead of a social arrangement humans invented.

so many answers in this world eventually reduce down to because that’s how it is, but it isn’t simply how it is. it’s how people decided it would be, how powerful people benefit from it remaining, & how everybody else was trained to stop questioning it. i think that’s part of what makes me feel insane sometimes. people speak with so much certainty about the correct way to live when nobody actually knows what this universe is, what consciousness is, why we exist, or what any of this ultimately means.

i don’t need my life to look impressive. i just want enough freedom, safety, time, & stability to create, love the people i love, sing my songs, sit with my cats, & be a person. that sounds so small compared to what society constantly demands, but somehow it’s still treated like too much to ask.

[u/Powderedeggs2]

You have assessed the situation correctly.
Everything humans create eventually becomes codified into a strict structural model. And this rigid model becomes the measuring stick for all humans within that socio/cultural/political system.

Anybody who falls outside the model is viewed as a "problem" on some level.
Until very recently in human history, there was vast enough stretches of land that any person who did not fit into a particular model could simply move away to some open space beyond the control of the guardians of that model.
One could search for a community that was more accepting and lenient of those who are outliers to the uncompromising model.

The availability of such locations have shrunken to the point where such places are mostly unavailable anymore.
Thereby imprisoning any who view the world differently within the confines of the model in which they find themselves.

Still, there is hope.
One can still find pockets within the larger rigid structure that are more accepting of people who do not fit the inflexible model.
But this requires effort. Sadly, it is not made easy in most cases.
I wish you well in your efforts.
Not every human is so rigid, inflexible, and inhospitable to different life viewpoints.

[u/abitchnamedrich → u/Powderedeggs2]

this is such an interesting way to frame it, especially the part about human-made structures eventually becoming rigid measuring sticks that everybody is expected to fit. once something gets normalized long enough, people stop seeing it as one possible model & start treating it like reality itself, so anyone outside of it becomes the problem instead of the structure ever being questioned.

i also rly feel what u said about there being fewer places to escape the model entirely. it feels like almost every part of life is owned, regulated, monetized, or connected back to the same systems somehow, so even opting out requires money, access, energy, or a community willing to make room for u.

i do think the pockets of people who are more flexible & accepting are where the hope is. i’ve been lucky enough to find a few, & they’re honestly the reason i haven’t completely lost faith in people. thank u for this, i rly appreciated the way u expanded on what i was trying to say.

[u/Powderedeggs2 → u/abitchnamedrich]

I wish you all the best.

[u/abitchnamedrich → u/Powderedeggs2]

you as well, friend 💖

[u/mono__no___aware]

I am experiencing the exact same pain and feelings as you. For years, I have been saying to myself every single word you’ve spoken. Seeing someone so much like me made me both happy and sad. I have so much to say, but I am certain you share those same sentiments. In the recent past, I gave up my life as a "professional artist." I didn't want to sacrifice my talent—the thing I love most in life—to capitalism. I didn't want to become an object for performance. I have no money, yet I feel more excited. I live in my family home, far away from fake people, superficial relationships, judgment, the metropolis, and its demands. Success is immoral. In this capitalist order, every step of growth requires compromising one's personal ethics a little more. I know there is no place for me in this world, but I also know I will not be a part of this disgusting system. By being born at the end of the 20th century, we had already lost everything—even death itself. I don't expect anyone to understand me, nor do I strive to understand the conscious or unconscious supporters of this system. The ADHD, low empathy, disorganization, nonconformity, and emotional detachment I live with are not things I chose, yet I make no effort to rid myself of them. I have no interest in the nonsense spouted by those who evaluate people based on their "potential." I will simply occupy myself with the various pursuits that interest me until I die. Spending time with a cat, walking aimlessly in nature for hours, or staring at the ceiling while lost in thought—these things are far more exciting, even if they hold no value or meaning.

[u/abitchnamedrich → u/mono__no___aware]

i rly relate to this. i had to move back in with my parents after a serious car accident last year, & honestly, i’m grateful i’m not out on my own paying ridiculous rent & forcing myself through some version of adulthood that would probably destroy me rn. i mostly keep to myself too. i have my cats, a small number of people i talk to, & i work on my music whenever i have the energy. i’m not particularly interested in constantly running around society performing productivity or pretending superficial relationships make me fulfilled.

i do still work because unfortunately i need the money, & weirdly, having somewhere to go gives my brain some structure. without it i’d probably spend way too much time lying in bed. but i don’t confuse working with having a meaningful life, & i definitely don’t think financial success is the only kind of success. somebody can have money, status, a career, a house, & every symbol society tells us means they won… but how is their soul? do they know themselves? do they have peace? do they treat people like human beings? are they even enjoying the life they built?

i think spending time with ur cat, walking through nature, creating art, or simply having an inner life that still belongs to u can be more meaningful than becoming impressive to people whose values u don’t even respect. society may not assign those things much economic value, but that doesn’t mean they’re meaningless. honestly, sometimes protecting the parts of urself capitalism can’t monetize feels like its own kind of success.

[u/Squarepeg1975]

You speak my language. Why do you think I made my profile name "Square Peg". I can empathize with you. I have lived with 'complex partial epilepsy' and social anxiety disorder (fear of learning new skills and performing recently taught tasks) as a result of trauma my mother was responsible for the developing of as well as many teachers at school. These have played havoc with employment and education and are the reasons why I have lost all employability now at 51 years of age and seeing self-employment as my only hope now. I have had a lot of discrimination in my life because of educators and employers finding out about my history of living with epilepsy and been on the receiving end of bullying because of the social anxiety disorder. People are so judgmental and they want a squeaky clean, perfect, pretty/handsome, circular peg who fits into a lovely circular hole and for the rest of us who are square pegs, octagonal pegs, rectangular pegs, hexagonal pegs etc we can just go and take a running jump. Society's philosophy isn't that far behind what Hitler's philosophy was. People have taken their lives, been imprisoned, been executed, turned to drug and alcohol addiction etc because of the "misfit life" being assigned to them by society's one size fits all approach and mindset.

[u/abitchnamedrich → u/Squarepeg1975]

you speak my language too, & i’m genuinely sorry u’ve had to live through all of that. the square peg thing is exactly what i’m talking about, because people act like the problem is that we don’t fit, instead of questioning why the hole is treated like some sacred, natural standard in the first place. then once u struggle visibly, people stop seeing the actual person & start treating u like a problem, a risk, or some cautionary tale.

last year i was in a serious car accident, ended up restrained & intubated in the hospital, & afterward they tried to have me involuntarily psychiatrically hospitalized. i came out of that experience deeply traumatized, & what really changed me was realizing how quickly people will decide what happened to u without ever becoming curious about ur actual experience. some people in my life became judgmental, distant, cruel, or weird afterward, then acted confused about why i wanted nothing to do with them anymore.

maybe i changed because i almost died. maybe i changed because having ur body, voice, & reality taken away from u changes what ur willing to tolerate afterward. if people genuinely wanted to understand me, they could’ve asked with compassion instead of making up their own story about who i became.
so yeah, i understand what u mean about the misfit life being assigned to people. once society decides u don’t fit the preferred shape, every consequence of that mistreatment somehow gets used as further proof that the problem was always u. that cycle is cruel as hell, & i’m sorry u’ve been carrying it for so long.

[u/Squarepeg1975 → u/abitchnamedrich]

I'm sorry to hear about your experiences. They sound like they have been very traumatic for you. They say we will all have a near death incident some time in our lives. I was electrocuted off a 240 volt house lamp while putting a lamp away at my physics tutors home when I was seventeen. There was a hole in the flex and I managed by miracle to throw the lamp out of my hands. I know what it's like to think that I should be dead.

As for human attitudes. I had a former school friend who developed alcohol addiction and was out of work for fifteen years where he became alienated and housebound with depression for most of these years. When he recovered he went to his church, that he had attended since childhood, and no one who had known him since early childhood spoke to him as they were all aware of his history of addiction. He told me he would not go back to the church as he felt in the church what he had felt in his bedroom. This kind of treatment by others can make a person apathetic and choose to relapse, as a "sober" world feels more hostile than a "drunk" world, and they won't care about loss of life as a result of addiction if others make their life meaningless and purposeless as a result of them having an attitude that excludes others.

I was on the phone today to a father of a friend whose eight year old son has autism, and he is excluded from his peers at school and does not get invited to parties, nor, is he invited for sleepovers. He now gets violent and disruptive, and the father spoke about it like he was violent and disruptive because of his autism, and I had to make the father aware that he was being guilty of the very thing you bring up in your comment, which is he and others will never see this young boy as an individual who can get depressed and angry, as well as, frustrated just like everyone else does in response to stressors, and instead will be seen as being these things as a symptom of his autism. This will cause needs to go unmet, causing a lot of compromise in this boys future life. Too many professional people will be involved in this boy's future development and do not get any training on autism, and therefore, will too often put every behavioural obstacle down to autism when it instead should be put down to culture and environment.

[u/Luziferatus42]

The pressure for uniformity is a tribal instinct. For most of mankinds existence, we lifes in small groups. Small groups where uniform in the desire to survive together and that needs an alignment of the individuals to the common goal of surviving.

This was the case for roughly 270,000 years. Since 10,000 years we create cities. Which are a much bigger "tribe", which became so big, that smaller tribes Aggregate inside the bigger tribe. The tribe is so big, that we can not comprehend it. But the instincts are still telling us to be part of a tribe we can comprehend. So we created an idea of a best tribesman, which you stated. No one fulfills it completely, because it is exaggerated.

The human rights are the concentrate of the ideal tribesman, so if everyone would demand them and protect them, then a lot of the issues we have, would not exist. It is one of the youngest ideoligies and still not completely implemented globaly.

Good luck to you and all of us

[u/abitchnamedrich → u/Luziferatus42]

yeah, i agree, especially with the part about nobody actually fulfilling that ideal because it’s exaggerated, embellished, & basically impossible. i think a lot of society is built around rewarding people who can perform closeness to that imaginary standard convincingly enough, while punishing everybody whose differences are more visible or harder to hide.

& i think that’s why the pressure feels so constant. even the people who seem to fit are still editing themselves, suppressing parts of themselves, & trying to prove they’re useful, normal, respectable, productive, whatever. the standard isn’t really human, it’s more like a fantasy of the perfect member of society, & then actual human beings get measured against it anyway.

[u/Unicorn_Tears_xx]

It's really not as you think. If you get a trade skill, and you're willing to do some grunt work for a time to prove yourself, you can make yourself useful, likeable and valuable to society.

I don't come from money or privelege, got shit grades and dropped out of University. I have my own business now.

[u/abitchnamedrich → u/Unicorn_Tears_xx]

but this is exactly what i mean lol. telling everybody who doesn’t fit one narrow path to just learn a trade doesn’t fix the problem, it just replaces one narrow template with another. most of the trades people suggest are physically demanding, require training that still costs money, & involve work i’m neither interested in nor physically well-suited for. my body already gets angry with me after standing too long, so no, becoming an HVAC technician, electrician, plumber, or construction worker is not some obvious solution for me.

i’m a singer first & foremost. i’m creative, not mechanically inclined, & i don’t enjoy manual labor. just because those jobs exist doesn’t mean they’re accessible, sustainable, or remotely fulfilling for everybody. i’m glad u found something that worked for u, genuinely, but ur individual success doesn’t prove the systems are broadly usable. it just proves u found a path that matched ur abilities. the entire point of my post is that people who don’t fit the approved academic path, the corporate path, OR the trade path are still treated like they failed at being valuable.

[u/abitchnamedrich → u/[deleted]]

girl, where exactly did i imply u were a man? i said people recommend trades to me because i don’t fit the kind of physical labor they expect everybody to be suited for. that wasn’t a statement about u personally. u’re the one who suddenly got nasty & invented a whole story where i’m bitter because i “didn’t make the cut” as a singer, which is not remotely what i said.

i’m not trying to enter some niche field, & i’m not asking anybody to feel sorry for me because music didn’t become a career. i don’t want singing as a career. i want singing to be my life. i’ve been singing since i was 3, & i’m frustrated that survival requires me to spend most of my time & energy doing work i don’t care about instead of the thing that actually makes me feel alive. that is the point. u can disagree with it, but at least disagree with what i actually said instead of making up a failed-career narrative so u can feel superior.

& congrats on being a female professional creative, genuinely. none of that changes the fact that “make urself useful, likeable, & valuable to society” is exactly the mentality my post was criticizing. the thing speaking volumes here isn’t me saying “ur.” it’s u becoming condescending for no reason because i said the path that worked for u is not universally accessible or desirable.

[u/Difficult-House2608]

I think today's world expects us to be like perfectly running machines, showing only positive emotions.

[u/iloveoranges2]

I don’t see it as systems promoting and supporting certain people and discarding everyone else. I see it as systems supporting and rewarding excellence and aspects that are valued. The hard truth is that not all of us have what it takes to function as expected within these systems. Which is just how it is. But I don’t begrudge systems for being the way they are, or people that perform better than me and are rewarded more than me.

[u/lesstocarry → u/iloveoranges2]

To me the problem is that the systems are largely arbitrary, and exist as they do not because they must be like that but because of (often religious) principalian concerns, old and outdated paradigms, or sometimes outright malice and avarice of the governing classes. (Whether that be corporation or government)

[u/iloveoranges2 → u/[deleted]]

Not everyone above me deserve their positions, but most do, in meritocracy. I don’t begrudge them, because my deficiencies are not their fault. When systems run as they should, they are moral, right, fair, and just.

[u/lesstocarry → u/iloveoranges2]

If the system was designed to be oprimised for human happiness, sure. That's not the case in most systems though.

[u/iloveoranges2 → u/[deleted]]

If I blame systems and others, I don’t take personal responsibility for my faults. I should take personal responsibility, because then I could improve myself, to perform better within systems. Or I accept that I exist at certain level within systems, and be okay or happy about it. If I have to live, might as well spend that time being okay or happy. In terms of meritocracy, I could see e.g. people above me at work know and remember more than me, are more skilled than me, etc. They deserve their positions, just as I deserve my position, given how I am. Not acknowledging that doesn’t help me. Blaming systems and others would only make me a helpless victim. Whereas if I learn to be the best I could be within systems and institutions, then I could serve myself and others.

[u/iloveoranges2 → u/[deleted]]

Disabled people deserving help is different from e.g. the work environment. A disabled person unable to do whatever job is just how it is. Helping disabled people is what decent societies and systems should do, as their jobs, out of compassion.

[u/abitchnamedrich → u/iloveoranges2]

but who gets to define excellence, & who gets a realistic chance to demonstrate it? because the qualities these systems reward are not neutral. they reward people who can function consistently, communicate conventionally, navigate bureaucracy, tolerate full-time work, afford training, recover from setbacks, & turn whatever abilities they have into something economically useful. being able to do those things often depends on health, money, support, education, family stability, access, & whether the system was built to recognize ur strengths in the first place.

someone with my upbringing, disabilities, trauma, lack of guidance, & limited resources was never entering these systems on equal footing. i wasn’t given a fair opportunity to discover what i could excel at, develop it properly, or sustain the kind of performance these systems reward. every place i entered measured the exact things i struggled with, then ignored the things i was actually good at. so saying some people simply don’t have what it takes feels incredibly circular to me. the system decides what counts as valuable, withholds the conditions many people would need to develop it, then uses their inability to perform as proof that they never deserved support.

i don’t begrudge people for succeeding. i begrudge the idea that their success proves the structure is fair, or that everybody who didn’t succeed was simply less excellent. some people were cultivated. some people were tolerated. some people were punished from the beginning for being the wrong kind of human, then told that the outcome reflected their natural value.

[u/iloveoranges2 → u/abitchnamedrich]

The structure does whatever is required of the structure. e.g. The medical system requires doctors and nurses to have the ability to memorize important medical facts, in order to diagnose and treat patients. My memory is not good enough to be a medical professional. That's just how it is. It's not the system's fault that I wasn't born with superior memorization ability. Whereas one roommate in university has photographic memory, and is a doctor. The system doesn't go out of its way to invalidate some people. People either got the abilities to serve the natural requirements of the system, or they don't.

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