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The reason people try to avoid the "it's all fraud" kind of realization is that it deterministically leads to the second half of your comment, where you start t
by SpicyLemonZest 4y ago
The reason people try to avoid the "it's all fraud" kind of realization is that it deterministically leads to the second half of your comment, where you start to perceive every person and policy you don't like as a unitary web of badness. Plantation masters, bankers, and industrialists are all very different groups of people with different interests, goals, and practices. So if you find yourself with a grand unified theory of how they're all the same you've taken a wrong turn.
- agos 4y agoI think one can find, with a little effort, a goal that plantation masters, bankers, and industrialists have in common. It’s not really subtle
- SpicyLemonZest 4y agoThey certainly have some. Like most people, they tend to aspire to making money, gaining social status, and building fulfilling relationships. Can one find a goal that only these groups have in common? I don't think so. The only commonality between them is that they're conventionally considered powerful in modern American society, and even that part is only true because the terms are understood to refer specifically to powerful members of the underlying group. A counter clerk at Wells Fargo isn't really a "banker" and a farmer who hires a handful of people to help with the harvest isn't really a "plantation owner".