How is this not the standard view?
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/22864214
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Somebody rich said something. They’re obviously smart because only smart people, like me, get rich (some day!). Therefore, I agree that the poor are taking way too much! The rich deserve it more!
been the plan all along. Smith knew what he was talking about.
That’s the neat part: you don’t! You need to work a lot and barely survive so rich people can get richer and have more power and status, silly.
At this point power and status bores them, they’re at the stage where they have to kill some of the poors for sport and sadistic pleasure to feel something other than disdain for their spouses and children.
there is another way
We are social animals. When the herd exhibits general acceptance it triggers something in our brains to do the same. It is why billionaires are funding data centers to flood social media with the opinions and leans they want the public to have.
I can’t remember the researcher name, but among the many studies on this topic there have been a swath done in public waiting rooms with confederates (the name given to actors working for researchers). This is a reproduced experiment.
Waiting room. Smoke starts to trickle out of the ventilation system. How long til someone leaves? Turns out, it’s more likely for the room to clear faster if the confederate gets up sooner and leaves. Then the standard cascade effect happens as the herd takes the hint and everyone leaves. In some cases, it gets to the point where the room becomes hazy and people don’t leave til the confederate initiates.
None of life is a single variable scenario, but it’s worth digging into the variables known to influence us as people.
Learned helplessness is another item I believe is more relevant today than at the time of the now illegal, though famous, experiments performed on dogs.
The guillotine was invented in France over less income inequality.
So, if you have that, you’ll be happy. And I don’t want you to be happy because I’m happy when I am the one who is most happy. That’s why.
It would be crazy if this was true.
The system is built on eternal growth. Slowing down is not an option.
And the “myth of rugged individualism”, which is a political science/journalism way of saying rich people sold a bullshit idea of American culture being largely reliant on people not accepting help or cooperation from other people or the govt so rich people can avoid putting in their fair share.
They’ll kill that myth the second it’s not profitable.
5.5 years later and life still sucks
Propaganda. Effective propaganda.