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> they have no great job, no great life partner or no great status in their community, they feel there must be something that is preventing them from getting th
by ajuc 2y ago
> they have no great job, no great life partner or no great status in their community, they feel there must be something that is preventing them from getting these things
My friend works in IT and earns probably in the 99th or 98th percentile in the country. It's not that. In fact I don't think economic wellbeing is related at all. Poland has been doing great economically for the last 30 years, and yet the conspiracy theories are spreading.
I mostly blame social media. Previously if you wanted to know how the climate works you looked it up in encyclopedia, watched some TV or asked a teacher. They mostly weren't spreading bullshit.
Now you search internet and there's so much bullshit confirming all your wrong ideas you can spend weeks reading just that.
- StefanBatory 2y agoPiS state media absolutely destroyed my grandpa. In the recent years, he went from being someone whom you could talk to to someone that only speaks about how Tusk is devil and so on.
- whstl 2y agoI used to live in Brazil, and I saw a similar situation: a significant chunk of very intelligent and competent, high-earning, IT workers were very much into those theories. I also know a huge amount of conspiracy theory believers in the medical area. Also otherwise competent. If anything, the correlation with loneliness or low status was reverse: the richer and high-status, the more blatant and visible those beliefs were. People in low-prestige professions, or poor? It was very rare to see them talk about it.