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Except personal preferences are mostly irrelevant from the momentum of society. Because of acting that way, an immediate disadvantage in America results. The
by araes 3y ago
Except personal preferences are mostly irrelevant from the momentum of society. Because of acting that way, an immediate disadvantage in America results. The Kardashians, Swift, Santos, Thomas (also every other Supreme Court Justice [1]), Kalanick, SBF, Trump, Bezos' yacht, Musk's Twitter strobe [2], Epstein [3], Harvard making more than the NSF while taking NSF money [4] (+corrupt professors and lawsuits for bonus points [5]), flat wages since 1980 [6], preferential exploitation of loyal workers [7], and 42 million on food stamps [8] say that machiavellian, narcissistic, psychopaths generally get rewarded in America.
[1] https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/16/lets-just-say-it-very-clearly-us-supreme-court-corrupt https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/16/lets-just-say-...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0pH_XMUSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De0pH_XMUSA
[3] https://archive.org/details/jeffrey-epstein-39s-little-black-book-unredacted/page/22/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/jeffrey-epstein-39s-little-black...
[4] https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/10/harvard-endowment-surges-11-3-billion-university-surplus https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/10/harvard-endowment-su...
[5] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/9/25/pierson-sullivan-gino-whistleblowers/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/9/25/pierson-sulliva...
[6] https://finfacts.ie/cmsb/uploads/thumb/us_productivity_pay_gap_1973_2014_sept092015.jpg https://finfacts.ie/cmsb/uploads/thumb/us_productivity_pay_g...
[7] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103122001615?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221...
[8] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/19/what-the-data-says-about-food-stamps-in-the-u-s/sr_2023-07-19_snap_2/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/19/what-the-...
- mym1990 3y agoIdk what you going on about to be honest. I was talking about society in general, not the 1%. You're also just letting survivorship bias take over. Just because the cherry picked examples you picked out got to the top doesn't mean there aren't 100000 people behind them that failed extravagantly.