studies do not definitively show that I benefited from elite socialization and community-integration so honestly who can say!! post-Vox he's better than noahpinion buT COME THE FUCK ON https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1409844512671817730 …
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
"I personally am about in the middle of my peer group in terms of money and status so I don't FEEL privileged, also I tore out a man's trachea with my teeth once and my pulse didn't go over 60 bpm"
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Replying to @St_Rev @sonyasupposedly
also, there are multiple kinds of wealth and power, and this ties into a complaint I have had since Cory Doctorow published "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" a million years ago, with his concept of "wuffie", which is a kind of currency that flows from adoration & attention >>
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CD doesn't like REGULAR money, because the bad sort of people earn it and - worse yet - can bank it, thus creating wealth. So CD posits a new system where no property can be controlled (hence no wealth), but wuffie ebbs and flows and gives people power it's a sociopath fantasy
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no one should ever be allowed to keep things private, or save them for the future ; I - w my big Boing Boing fanbase - should be allowed to step in, touch the stuff, rearrange it, and the cheers of the crowd that I brought with are the only form of wealth / power / might / right
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and the connection to this topic is that MattY probably thinks that he has far less wealth than his "peers", but his true wealth and power is off book - he can start or end a populistic jihad with a dozen tweets
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the vast majority of the power resides in the network, not in any of the individual nodes
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I have no idea how or if that's falsifiable
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I think it's like matter and energy, two frames of the same fundamental thing
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