Comment by atoav
16 hours ago
Yes, but in the past decades the elites have accumulated wealth and resources at rates we haven't seen probably since before the French Revolution, depening on the metric you could also call it unprecedented.
Additionally many of todays elites have a social-darwinistic view where everybody that is not on top actively deserves to suffer and perish.
And this unfortunately falls together with the moment where AI reduces the number of real people ultrarich people need to control a population to a historic minimum. It is going to get much worse, before it is going to get better.
The social darwinistic view is just a mental protection mechanism against responsibility. Its like calluses but for the careless.
Social darwnism is about getting paid.
As an IT professional I don't have to put up with grave injustices like less than optimal rent seeking for myself and friends.
Whatever decision I come to is basically the results of a science experiment. Of course, the results of the experiment just prove I am always right. If the results proved otherwise then obviously there was something flawed in the method and design of the experiment.
Science is the method that proves what my friends and I thought all along was not just true but to think otherwise proves you are an immoral person. Unlike my friends and I that the experiments prove we are the good guys.
If this wasn't true, my salary would be much less. "the market is always right"
Probably a correct observation. Nobody is protected against believing excuses that conviniently ease the cognitive dissonance. That includes you and me. But the difference is of course that we are not hoarding resources in a world that would need them and have such a negative impact on others.