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> I'd trust the gut feelings of the majority of people rather than the opinions of a handful of experts This explains a lot of things happening in the US right

• cryptica 6y ago
  Experts and authority figures have deceived people enough times that they no longer deserve any trust. It's simple game theory. For me, the point of no return was the 2008 bank bailouts and it was made worse with the 2020 COVID bailouts... In spite of the fact that the government had promised that 2008 would be the last bailouts. Reserve banks of the world are printing massive amounts of money and essentially giving it to corporations (via 'loans' which are used for stock buybacks) and in doing so they betrayed the trust of every honest worker who earns a salary in fiat. It's not that we want to rely on gut feelings. Gut feelings are simply the lesser of two evils. And BTW, there are plenty of intellectuals who promote the viewpoint that the system is fragile and corrupt such as Nassim Taleb, Noam Chomsky, Chamath Palihapitiya and others. If you want to make sense of the modern world, just read some of their books or watch some of their interviews and presentations on YouTube. The evidence that authorities cannot be trusted is absolutely clear.