"Move somewhere else? Then who do you think would take them in?"
"According to your plan, the wars between the major nations would cease. Then what use would shinobi villages have as military forces? No shinobi village would be willing to let outsiders take a share of the missions that belonged to them."
"Then is the daimyo of the Land of Wind unwilling to help his own shinobi village?" Konan asked in confusion.
"Heh!" Naruto seemed to have thought of a joke as he laughed. "Perhaps you don't know this, but the daimyo of the Land of Wind has been cutting Sunagakure's funding all along. He's even handed most of the Land of Wind's mission shares over to Konoha."
"This..."
Konan had not expected that to be the case. The Land of Rain had sealed itself off long ago, and the commissions Akatsuki received usually had nothing to do with such matters.
"At its root, the Shinobi Village System is simply too outdated. Shinobi villages can only sustain themselves through commissions, and shinobi rely on the commissions assigned by their villages to make a living."
"And once a country's share of commissions decreases, shinobi who lose their stable source of income will struggle even to support themselves."
"That was exactly what happened to Sunagakure. The Land of Wind reduced the missions allocated to them, and the entire village fell into extreme poverty. The moment they saw Konoha showing signs of decline, they immediately chose to start a war."
"But since they started a war, that also meant the village still possessed considerable shinobi strength. Yet they could not think of putting that strength to use elsewhere, only of war—the least efficient method."
"Because the Shinobi Village System has already constrained their thinking. The meaning of a shinobi's existence is to