What are Pads?
Now, what is padding?
The instruments that are employed to reduce the societal agitation are the Pads, while the process of their deployment is called padding or foaming. Pads that are prevalent in our society are Wealth, Entertainment and Mental satisfaction (which can be illusory).
Regardless of the debate as to which Pads are the most efficient ones and must be employed, we will proceed with the discussion using the established predominant standard witnessed today. The reason is to understand why the societies with high HSP violation are still making both ends meet. Also, in an ideal society, such great distress does not exist, so there is no need to manage such an extensive engagement mechanism to sustain the society.
From The Destined Future (HSPs).
Pads drained between societies
The measure as written
In THE DESTINED FUTURE (HSPs), the Shock and Pad Theory names the Pads:
The instruments that are employed to reduce the societal agitation are the Pads, while the process of their deployment is called padding or foaming. Pads that are prevalent in our society are Wealth, Entertainment and Mental satisfaction (which can be illusory).
It then shows where a society takes them from when its own are not enough:
Likewise, a society with high HSP violation is so disturbed that it tries to satisfy its members with Pads, and as these Pads are not enough within itself, it steals them from other societies (mainly in the form of wealth).
The same paragraph gives the measure of the drain:
(In practice, this can be measured by how much of the NEPs a society is producing and how much of it is being exported, i.e. a society that exports a large share of its NEP production while its own NEPs remain unmet is being drained of its Pads.)
What it measures, in plain words