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Globalization. If you're a rich person you spend most of your life in the company of other rich people across the world. If you're a politician you spend it wit
by throwaway48476 2y ago
Globalization. If you're a rich person you spend most of your life in the company of other rich people across the world. If you're a politician you spend it with other politicians. It's natural for a person to feel some kind of group affinity for the people they interact with the most.
The result is they're even less connected to the societies they are nominally a part of. It also makes them much more invested in perpetuating the system and less receptive to society.
edit: This was intentional as it was thought that such a system would reduce international conflict.
- squigz 2y ago> The result is they're even less connected to the societies they are nominally a part of. It also makes them much more invested in perpetuating the system and less receptive to society. How might we start to fix that, do you think? I don't imagine globalization is going anywhere.
- throwaway48476 2y agoIdk, it depends on what you want to happen. When dealing with complexity tooling usually helps. I tend to think instead of redacting documents when FOIAd everything should be public by default. We could have graph tools that markup the connections and make the world more comprehensible.
- squigz 2y agoWell I'm curious what you think, so really it depends on what you want to happen, which presumably would include fixing this: > The result is they're even less connected to the societies they are nominally a part of. It also makes them much more invested in perpetuating the system and less receptive to society.
- throwaway48476 2y agoThere's a correlation between inequality and political stability and absent some kind of societal shift, taxes. But this is very reductive.