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It seems to me that oligarchies as a whole function a lot like PE's taking over a socially unstable polity. The west has been an oligarchy for several decades
by Avicebron 12d ago
It seems to me that oligarchies as a whole function a lot like PE's taking over a socially unstable polity.
The west has been an oligarchy for several decades at least, so it's not that people in the west don't believe in social stability, it's that they are living in the hollowed out shell of the former "company" where that doesn't exist. We need to optimize for the people's prosperity and well being.
- andsoitis 12d ago> ... several decades at least .... We need to optimize for the people's prosperity and well being. What statistics are you looking at that makes you draw the conclusion that people are WORSE off today than, say, 20, 30, 40, years ago?
- pixl97 12d agoLongevity decreases, cost of living increases on every metric, rampant inflation, ever increasing economic uncertainty, increases in mental health issues, increasingly unstable populism overturning long standing institutions. There is also the effect where it doesn't matter if are or are not doing better by the numbers, it question is do they feel they are doing better. People act on how they feel, not on how they are.