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Yes there is actually: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-of-workers-is-a-big-factor-in-fed-policy.html https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/
by compiskey 4y ago
Yes there is actually: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-of-workers-is-a-big-factor-in-fed-policy.html https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...
Not saying I agree with him 100% but Varoufakis makes similar claims after being in the room with IMF’s leadership.
I’ve had meetings with rich heirs wanting to compete with Facebook because “there are more than enough idiots to make us richer too. Zuckerberg can’t have them all! room laughs.”
There are conversations that take place all the time you’re not invited to.
It’s so subtle and hyper normalized we don’t see it.
- brookst 4y agoEh, the thing is, for every rich group of assholes like that, there is some other rich group of assholes also scheming. To different ends. With different motives. But you’re right, I should not have said there’s no Star Chamber. I should have said, there are a multitude of Star Chambers and their little conspiracies have no bearing on the actual world. They do believe it themselves.