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I submit that the human brain isn't equipped to handle control of multi-hundreds of billions of dollars cap and the working lives of hundreds of thousands of in
by LightBug1 3mo ago
I submit that the human brain isn't equipped to handle control of multi-hundreds of billions of dollars cap and the working lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals. Particularly if you're morally suspect to begin with.
This is just one of countless obvious examples.
- wat10000 3mo agoMoney is power. Power corrupts.
- smt88 3mo agoI wonder if power actually corrupts, or if it’s really that attaining power requires pretending to be a good person, and the mask can fall off after the power is attained.
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- raverbashing 3mo agoI don't think it's fair to blame money in this case
- yard2010 3mo agoIt might be the other way around. There are powerful people with money that simply behave. A few assholes turn things into shit for everyone, when they also have money it just becomes worse.
- smt88 3mo agoFDR is a very interesting case study. He had the country in the palm of his hand and could have cemented his (or his party’s) power permanently, but instead he left the republic intact.
- lokar 3mo agoThat’s not what the right thinks. They are obsessed with him and rolling back the new deal.
- hyhatqtv 3mo agoThe New Deal was mostly rolled back a while ago. After all corporatism did generally fall out of fashion for after WW2 (and of course there was quite a bit of opposition of state planning due to geopolitical reasons in the 50s and later)
- lokar 3mo agoSocial security? And the follow-up, Medicare?
- hedora 3mo agoThose are both being actively dismantled.
- myroon5 3mo agoSocial Security and Medicare are ~26% and ~16.5% of the federal budget (excluding the 15% of the budget that's just financing previous years' budgets): https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/ https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
- lokar 3mo agoAnd?
- yard2010 3mo agoAs The President told FDR in Rick and Morty: "Try having an historical administration after Facebook goes online, you old-timey bitch!"
- ceejayoz 3mo agoEspecially once you start icing out people who push back.