I think it’s important to understand, these people believe that they already control the world. From their perspective, they aren’t “trying”, they’re doing. And they believe they have the right to do so. They believe that having wealth makes them more important and more capable than everyone else, even though the reality is often that having wealth separates them from having to actually do anything for themselves, making them less capable and less experienced than everyone else.
The rest of us, our needs, our concerns, our desires, our lives… none of that matters to them, except when it either enables or impedes getting what they want.
The only thing preventing the entire world from being stuck in complete, abject despotism is that these people are often at each other’s throats. When they collude, everything they touch turns to garbage.
Right but there are people amongst us poor who threw their lot in with the wealthy years ago. They’re as much the enemy because they would fight on the side of wealth.
The only thing preventing the entire world from being stuck in complete, abject despotism is that these people are often at each other’s throats. When they collude, everything they touch turns to garbage.
That’s the hope. I’m sure there are a handful of billionaires who are decent enough people, tech co-founders who didn’t get all weird about the tech money. But the other 98% are legit sociopaths. They can’t co-exist for long, they’re all secretly undercutting each other. It’s in their nature.
One possible future is letting the dragons fight it out, and picking off the stragglers. Fingers crossed 🤞
i think the oligarchs do defacto control a significant chunk of the world and they are trying to exercise that control to enact their deranged ai-hallucination-like version of reality that their confirmation broken brains think should be done
thankfully they do not share these visions with eachother commonly and nation states are slowly making laws to prevent them abusing the global financial system
I think it’s important to understand, these people believe that they already control the world. From their perspective, they aren’t “trying”, they’re doing. And they believe they have the right to do so. They believe that having wealth makes them more important and more capable than everyone else, even though the reality is often that having wealth separates them from having to actually do anything for themselves, making them less capable and less experienced than everyone else.
The rest of us, our needs, our concerns, our desires, our lives… none of that matters to them, except when it either enables or impedes getting what they want.
The only thing preventing the entire world from being stuck in complete, abject despotism is that these people are often at each other’s throats. When they collude, everything they touch turns to garbage.
Imagine fighting a long war where one side knows they are fighting the war, and a vast majority of the other side thinks they are trying to help them.
There’s no war other than class war. We’ve been fighting it for centuries. Remember that.
Right but there are people amongst us poor who threw their lot in with the wealthy years ago. They’re as much the enemy because they would fight on the side of wealth.
That’s the hope. I’m sure there are a handful of billionaires who are decent enough people, tech co-founders who didn’t get all weird about the tech money. But the other 98% are legit sociopaths. They can’t co-exist for long, they’re all secretly undercutting each other. It’s in their nature.
One possible future is letting the dragons fight it out, and picking off the stragglers. Fingers crossed 🤞
Absolutely agree. They really believe that they are all that matters.
i think the oligarchs do defacto control a significant chunk of the world and they are trying to exercise that control to enact their deranged ai-hallucination-like version of reality that their confirmation broken brains think should be done
thankfully they do not share these visions with eachother commonly and nation states are slowly making laws to prevent them abusing the global financial system
Being insulated from reality and surrounded by sycophants causes literal brain damage.