And it's funny how they haven't tried simply buying their way into the history books. Imagine if :melon-musk: led a battle against climate change and spent his enormous wealth doing that, he would go down as a hero in world history and be almost universally beloved until we inevitably learn about how terrible he actually was like an American Winston Churchill.
Still though, even today, no one is in any rush to tear down the Churchill statues.
I could be persuaded by the theory that they need to be loved because when you work people harder for less while you live as an economic god, they become increasingly unsatisfied. The love is a way of assuaging the violence that historically follows the wealth inequality. There's probably coordinated efforts just like when they let those billionaires into the democratic primary in 2020. They must be selling you something, right? You don't get to be a billionaire without a pathological desire for profit and exploitation. If you see them, they're trying something.
You don’t get to be a billionaire without a pathological desire for profit and exploitation
Don't they tend to just inherit the family money and continue the practices of wealth accumulation and labor exploitation that capital has worn into a familiar path
They're not satisfied with merely ruling over us. They need to be loved.
Gul Dukat's portrayal on Star Trek Deep Space Nine was a good introduction to that pathology. :warf-wtf:
And it's funny how they haven't tried simply buying their way into the history books. Imagine if :melon-musk: led a battle against climate change and spent his enormous wealth doing that, he would go down as a hero in world history and be almost universally beloved until we inevitably learn about how terrible he actually was like an American Winston Churchill.
Still though, even today, no one is in any rush to tear down the Churchill statues.
:I-was-saying:
I kid you not, the second I hit "post" I was waiting for this replay.
Let's sacrifice them to the Pah-Wraiths
I'm willing to launch them into space with no plan for retrieval, sure
I could be persuaded by the theory that they need to be loved because when you work people harder for less while you live as an economic god, they become increasingly unsatisfied. The love is a way of assuaging the violence that historically follows the wealth inequality. There's probably coordinated efforts just like when they let those billionaires into the democratic primary in 2020. They must be selling you something, right? You don't get to be a billionaire without a pathological desire for profit and exploitation. If you see them, they're trying something.
Don't they tend to just inherit the family money and continue the practices of wealth accumulation and labor exploitation that capital has worn into a familiar path