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> They see it as a kind of gilded age lords and their servants. The vexing thing is that everyone thinks that they are going to end up on the "lord" side of th
by esarbe 5y ago
> They see it as a kind of gilded age lords and their servants.
The vexing thing is that everyone thinks that they are going to end up on the "lord" side of this duality. I think this is the biggest lie of the 20th and 21th century; that this game is in any way, shape or form a fair one. The game is rigged and while everyone seems to recognize this on some level, almost everyone is trying to keep it rigged in the delusion that they be the masters one day.
The fools.
- whakim 5y agoMeritocracy is a giant myth (often completely unconnected to the underlying data), but it's important to recognize that it's just the latest in a long line of myths that have been told to justify inequality. For centuries, the wealth of the nobility and the clergy vis-a-vis the third estate was justified by appealing to the harmony of a tripartite society. In the ownership societies of the 19th century, inequality was often justified by pointing to the various rules and laws that governed and sacralized property rights (which were theoretically available to anyone) upon which stability and good governance depended.