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[Anonymous No.12424985]

So in Dune, it's told that the Fremen use immeasurable amounts of spice to bribe the Guild to stop other houses from putting up satellites to spy on Arakkis.
Why didn't they just use this wealth to buy water?

[Anonymous No.12425118]

>>12424985
Water is temporary. Spice is forever.

[Anonymous No.12425371]

>>12424985
maybe for the same reason that Palestinians use their foreign aid money to buy rockets, guns and build tunnels instead of using it to grow farms and houses?

[Anonymous No.12425514]

The fremen are nomads, if they started purchasing water then they'd end up reliant on it. The second they are reliant on the Guild, they have them and their way of life is threatened. They are also proud people who don't want their children to become weak.

[Anonymous No.12425701]

>>12424985
They had water, tons of it. Just having water wasn't the issue they wanted to turn Dune into a paradise and needed to deal with a massive space empire that also needed spice

[Anonymous No.12425724]

>>12424985
Don't they have a lot of water in the sietch?

[Anonymous No.12425956]

>>12424985
Because God made Arrakis to test the faithful. The Fremen were actively opposed to making their lives easier. So much so that, when Muad'Dib began to transform the desert, a faction of Fremen plotted to kill him.

If might sound mad, but that's Arabs for you.

[Anonymous No.12426320]

they prefer piss

[Anonymous No.12426514]

>>12425956
Yep. The Guild, Bene Gesserit, and Tleilaxu knew they could exploit that ignorance.

[Anonymous No.12427676]

>>12425701
This

[Anonymous No.12427738]

>>12424985
They had most of the water on the planet by the events of the first book.
If you're asking why not when they were just getting started, then get ready for a million+ hours of stupid lore.

[Anonymous No.12429113]

>>12425371