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Understood, but what I'm saying is that it's hypocritical and shallow gesturing. Just words, and not even deeply felt. In practice the world still admires the r
by the_af 3y ago
Understood, but what I'm saying is that it's hypocritical and shallow gesturing. Just words, and not even deeply felt. In practice the world still admires the rich and powerful.
Re: the Musks and Thiels of this world, it probably doesn't help their public image that the modern world makes their bizarre opinions and outright arrogance more easily communicated. If Ford was arrogant or held freakish opinions, it was a little harder for the common man to find out. Now Musk can call a scuba diver a pedophile or spout conspiracy theories and this reaches tons of people almost immediately.
- filoleg 3y agoThat’s a really good point I haven’t thought about before. For all I know, Ford indeed could’ve been even less revered than Musks and Thiels in the timeline where internet was already commonplace back then. Legitimately thanks for bringing it up. That makes quite a lot of things about the current time more difficult to comprehend using historical precedence. Because a lot of the fundamental things about living in our present time are exactly the same, yet unprecedented in significant ways. I guess the same could be said about almost any time period in history though.