• Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    17 hours ago

    I mean… Pretty much a clever idea.

    Use other peoples money to drop a bomb on the current system economically. When its reduced to rubble put a flag up saying that its your rubbles and then watch as people slowly and desperately try to put it back together using their own money, and then start sucking the blood and life out of it and using the rebuilt infrastructure as if it was really yours all along. Didnt you see the flag?

    It helps to have rich friends that you dont actually care about to abuse their money and then abuse their influence and power of politics to keep anyone else from trying to build an alternative.

    It really is just make others pay for everything all the time, as a game to those who already have more than enough.

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      15 hours ago

      I don’t think it’s even clever. Sociopathic behavior is mostly fairly obvious. It isn’t that they think to do things we never considered; it’s that we consider and reject those ideas because they are obviously harmful to others.

      In the past, societies dealt with people like that by shunning, imprisoning, or executing them. Now a significant part of the public idolizes them and just wishes they could get away with the same crimes. That scares me more than than people like Marc and Elon. It’s hard to enforce laws against criminal behavior when a large part of the population thinks it’s all okay.

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        9 hours ago

        Yeah, and yet we dont do that now. Seems clever to pick a time when everyone is to complacent to do something about it.

        You are right that most of us reject being a monster personally but we aren’t doing anything about it and taking advantage of us seems to be working quite well.