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"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before to
by zxcba23sdf23 9y ago
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford
s/banking/data
s/monetary system/psychology
Power is the corrupter that turns people against people.
Thiel would tell you it's government, but that's just people with power. We like to focus on the abstraction in those cases; makes it easier to hide the truth.
Let's let a rando billionaire test drugs in uncontrolled experiments. Cause there's no chance some random side-effect could see it mutate into a human killing oopsie.
They're a rando billionaire, and have been emotionally captured by the nonsense notion he's somehow earned special privilege outside the financial and tech business contexts.