Since I learned economics (at the highest level), and it absolutely does not define needs neither deal with this issue, once again you prove that you have no idea what you are talking about.

Some people "must have" everything. The thing is, and for the last time, you do not decide what other people need or want or wish to achieve. That's not your problem.

The volcano was clearly linked to the cave and the "magical light" came from it. More than that, we can't tell.

The Jacob-worshippers going to the cabin was the way the writers tried to make sense and retcon the cabin. "Jacob used to live here but left and was replaces". But why or when Jacob lived in this cabin is not explained and can't be because season 3 Jacob is different from season 5-6 Jacob when they apparently ditched…

Yes someone did. You do not get to decide about what we are talking about in the middle on the discussion.

Never read Atlas Shrugged and do not like Ayn Rand and her philosophy but whatever.

I thought he was excluded for having an affaire off island.

The fact that over 100 years of socialists experiences and 10000 years of civilization did not open your eyes about what human beings can or will voluntarily do is also kind of sad and says a lot about the education system. Human beings but a small minority do not voluntarily take part in egalitarian experiences.…

"something that a person must have"

Norway and Denmark are not egalitarian societies.

Democracy is not just the rule of the majority, and to a one time process. You also have the rule of the law and to respect the political minority. So you can't decide to steal all the money of other people even by a democratic decision.
The thing is you do not seem to understand what "economic equality" entails. It is…

Never said they were not democratic and mostly free. Sweden is also not really a socialist country at all, and in fact a very free market oriented country but with a huge social system.

I never spoke of the UK and never said that the fewer economic equality means more democracy, it's stupid, there is no direct causality. Some countries or more or less equal economically, and the reasons are legions, but no democratic country has economic equality even Sweden or Norway, far from it, just maybe (and if…

It was never clear what was Jacob's role in the Purge. Did he order it ? Allow it ? Did nothing against it ? Since the Mother also made a Purge, maybe it's part of the guardian's role to sometime order one when the people on the island threaten the source as Dharma did. And Jacob would be a much more ambiguous guy.
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The truth is, it does not make a lot of sense, it's part of the things they changed or invented as they went.

It's Ilana and the problem is, the cabin was built by this Dharma guy in the 70s or 80s and Jacob had been living in the foot at least since the 19th century, so that does not work.

This would not be an issue in most of the world. First cousin marriage is not seen as incest almost anywhere, and in fact is even very common in some cultures like Arabs and Bedouins in particular. I had married cousins in my family (more in older generations). So I did not understand the problem.

The issue is that an egalitarian society is a totalitarian society by definition and the fact that you wish to decide who needs what proves exactly my point.

I struggle to see the connection between what I wrote and your answer. I never said that because people need or think they need something they should get it, but the can work to try to obtain and achieve whatever they want.

The economy deals with all aspects of human life and psyche, material and immaterial. But anyway, material needs also are almost unlimited and very different from people to people. Some people just needs the basic minimum, others need everything, and you do not get to decide who needs what. People are free to need…