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That’s because our financial system is controlled by power hungry but small minded sociopaths.

• TeMPOraL 4y ago
  That's an apt way of describing the voter base :). Or the market at scale. That's the major problem humanity faces. Individuals wielding concentrated power are dangerous, but they're also at least capable of thinking about something other than their immediate short-term interest. The masses, as aggregated through votes or purchasing decisions? They're structurally incapable of it.
  • anonymouskimmer 4y ago
    If what you are saying was true then NIMBYism wouldn't be a problem, and we also wouldn't have any large "open spaces" left. The problem is more parochialism than it is short-term thinking. And both sets of entities (powerful individuals and aggregate masses) are capable of parochialism.
  • zmgsabst 4y ago
    > The masses, as aggregated through votes or purchasing decisions? They're structurally incapable of it. I think this is a dangerous delusion: Historically, centralized control has been a disaster because those individuals wielding power believed they could think of something greater… but actually lacked the skill. So we ended up with simplistic concepts that failed at scale, ideas that never could work because they missed key details, etc. By contrast, society gets on with the business of building the future in spite of and not due to that meddling by centralized power.