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It's possible that stupid people in government have helped lead to the "5 guys owning everything" though. The world we live in is a result of policy choices, no
by vannevar 1mo ago
It's possible that stupid people in government have helped lead to the "5 guys owning everything" though. The world we live in is a result of policy choices, not a natural inevitability. And the people we've put in office over the past 50 years have played a large role. If they were being put in office by a population that was getting dumber and dumber every election cycle, that could certainly be a big contributor to the problems in wealth disparity we see today. I'm not saying that's the case, only that the two theories are not mutually exclusive.
- NordStreamYacht 1mo agoThey're not stupid, they're greedy and shameless.
- happymellon 1mo agoThey are creating a world that is inhospitable to them. They are stupid.
- vannevar 1mo agoI was just following the parent's wording. I don't really think they were stupid, or even necessarily greedy and shameless though some no doubt have been. I think mostly it has been ignorance. Likewise the general voting population: I don't think they've gotten dumber, but I do think they've gotten more misinformed. As the saying goes, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Never has that been more true in American politics.