[ SECRET POST #2002 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2002 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 066 secrets from Secret Submission Post #286.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - text comments ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"there's the fact that the highest seats of power are held almost exclusively by benders in the original series"

The leader of the southern water tribe, the leader of the northern water tribe, and the earth king were all non-benders.

so no.

And the majority of the rich people and powerful people that we see in the original show (the Beifongs, the fortune teller, Mai and her parents, Ty Lee, and Master Piandao) are non-benders. And the benders who are rich and/or powerful are either fire nation royalty, bending masters, or members of the military, which is because benders make convenient soldiers because they don't need as much training in combat or weapons.

Benders are not privileged, they're people born with a skill that makes them convenient for working as a laborer, a cop or a soldier, which are all pretty shitty jobs and don't put them in high economic or social ranks. In fact if they ever want to get anywhere in life with their bending skills (and aren't quite skilled enough to be pro benders) they're gonna want to join a triad, which incidentally happens to be the source of the bending/non-bending problems if Amon's "backstory" and Hiroshi Sato's entire reason for hating benders wasn't an indicator. The main problem here isn't that benders are privileged, it's that there aren't labor laws in place or a minimum wage, so benders can't really live off the shitty jobs they're "privileged" enough to get and thus some turn to a life of crime.