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I was watching a show, Orange Is the New Black, and it occurred to me how easy it is to get people in line to serve any sort of agenda. All you need to do is co
by x5n1 11y ago
I was watching a show, Orange Is the New Black, and it occurred to me how easy it is to get people in line to serve any sort of agenda. All you need to do is control the things people might want. Once you do that everyone just falls in line to do whatever you want. They will spend their days toiling away at whatever idiotic agenda you have come up for them. And it occurred to me all of society is like that.
A few people control all of the resources, and we are in line to do their bidding and drive the entire system. Without these people we'd just be either hunter gatherers or farmers. With these people in charge we're just there to do their bidding. The bad part of all of this is the progenitors of these ideas are long dead, but the system that they created chugs along continuing to make us do what they wanted to do in the first place.
The people who control the resources don't even know why they do what they do. They do it because that's how things are done. It's the right and moral thing to do.
- Hermel 11y agoThis observation holds in environments where the resources are tangible and controllable by force (i.e. owning the only oasis in the area or controlling oil fields). It does not hold in decentralized environments in which people can create value on their own.
- x5n1 11y agoEver heard of break out of the 9-5 jail? The 4 hour work week? And other things that are possible, but difficult to highly unlikely in a highly competitive system where most of the capital is held by a few who make employees of those are looking to be free. Entrepreneurs usually end up as employees of those with capital and if they work really really hard and get really really lucky. They can leave the jail and enjoy how much ever little time they have left.
- sitkack 11y ago> . All you need to do is control the things people might want. Once you do that everyone just falls in line to do whatever you want. Precisely why "not wanting" is dangerous. The first step is coerce people into an insatiable want, everything else flows from that.