Speaking of fake news efforts:
I should get a disinfo campaign started 'bout how excellent this city is for innovation, so we can get some entrepreneurs over to fuck shit up.
It's already gentrified anyway, but the idiots who did the damage don't even know how to build a road.
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I can understand assholes wanting to take all the money and power in a place and funnel it into their own pockets. I don't like it, but it makes sense if you're like that I guess.
I can't understand not wanting to make the place not-a-shithole when they ACTUALLY LIVE HERE.
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This sort of ineptitude requires a serious, serious lack of imagination, considering plenty of places with rich elites manage to be livable for the locals.
(But then, wealth appropriation as a lifestyle and curiosity are perhaps not so well-correlated.)
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Sort of wondering if the core problem with capitalism isn't simply the disconnect between wealth and political power.
The rich can bend or break rules as desired, but they aren't responsible for creating/maintaining useful rules (even ones that benefit them).
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Corporate or personal lobbyism most often amounts to "don't regulate me," "regulate my opponents," or "give me tax money."
There is no incentive to do anything but to go after a constantly shifting bunch of targets in order to expand market share/bottom line.
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There are a lot of issues with monarchist arguments, mostly because succession in a dictatorship is a problem nobody has ever solved, but simply deregulating the appropriation of wealth makes your system a meat grinder through which all of society is dragged, very slowly...
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All extant "better" systems that some people cleave to (e.g. social democracy) rest on wealth pyramids where, somewhere, there is a class of people or countries getting ripped off a la colonialism.
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And literally none of these systems have a response to climate change that doesn't amount to "Billions die while we sort of try to scrape by on a hostile planet," or "Can't we, just, like, roll back society 500 years? People will accept that, right?"