i think it’s really alarmingly common to belief that the rich control society i think that 2020 clearly proves this false *nobody is in control* but, rich favored defaults abound, politicans do favor the rich (backing). in chaos they return to the level of their training
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Replying to @DanielleFong
I dunno, when the oil industry knows its impact will destroy the planet 30 years ago and suppresses that information from the public and the govt doesn’t hold it accountable because it relies on that industry’s lobby, it does feel like the rich have dangerous levels of control.
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it's more like influence it's not a monolithic thing it's like individual lobbying at the level of individual policies not like how people imagine it it is indeed effective at the level of tax codes it is indeed effective at the level of destroying greentech investment
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But that takes a massive concentration of money. Rich people.
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the error that people are making is in assuming that rich people are monolithic, they're not, the 0.001% is totally different from the 1%, they don't talk with each other that much, and they're not much in control: e.g. bill gates can't even get the cdc to do good testing
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Replying to @DanielleFong
What I will say is that the public gets too smitten by these rich heroes (&their rich kids & grandkids) because “American Dream” — so we tend to look the other way and let them off the hook until they literally push society/environment to collapse and then we take back power.
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probably; the cult of the hero / cult of the villain is equally distorting, and you have this effect / splitting plainly in discourse around people like elon
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