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Is this a Ferengi Rule of Acquisition like "Treat people in your debt like family ... exploit them"?
by 7thaccount 2y ago
Is this a Ferengi Rule of Acquisition like "Treat people in your debt like family ... exploit them"?
- TeMPOraL 2y agoYes, all three quotes in this subthread are :).
- 7thaccount 2y agoHaha. Thank you for confirming. It certainly seemed familiar. Sometimes I worry that what we view as a cautionary tale about wealth (satire) is seen as a goal amongst the elite.
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoI wouldn't say goal as much as natural consequence. One of the pieces of media that sent me quite leftwards was a podcast called Behind the Bastard's episode on what the host, Robert Evans, calls "Elite Panic" and it's history intertwined through (and behind, heh) various disasters in our history, and specifically, how the wealthy cause and/or react to them in ways that are profoundly inhuman. Which is not to dehumanize them but quite the contrary, is a fairly clear (and frankly understudied) way that the accumulation of wealth screws with your mind.