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The point is, those lifestyles are a symptom. For reasons I cannot explain, we collectively spend an excessive amount of time on symptoms and too little time on
by chiefalchemist 3y ago
The point is, those lifestyles are a symptom. For reasons I cannot explain, we collectively spend an excessive amount of time on symptoms and too little time on root problems.
Yes, resources are limited. So then why are key entities (e.g., The Fed) so insantant on squandering those resources for The Few? The buck literally starts and stops here. Solving the after the fact symptom(s) is a fool's errand. If we - The Many - continue to be fools, nothing is going to change. In fact, the concentration and distribution of financial wealth is getting worse. But sure, let's keep obcessing over symptoms.
- squigz 3y ago> For reasons I cannot explain, we collectively spend an excessive amount of time on symptoms and too little time on root problems. Because we're led to believe the symptons are the actual problems. Solving the core issues would be bad for the rich and powerful, and so they work to keep us distracted and misinformed > If we - The Many - continue to be fools, I think this unfairly shifts the majority of blame to ordinary citizens, as if aren't misled or outright lied to at every turn by "The Few"
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- chiefalchemist 3y ago> I think this unfairly shifts the majority of blame to ordinary citizens, as if aren't misled or outright lied to at every turn by "The Few" If the lies of The Few keep working, why should they stop? If The Many are well aware they have been lied to *repeatedly*, and yet continue to suck up the lies as gospel, whose fault is that? "First time, shame on you. Second time, shame on me." But The Many can't count past one.