What, greedy, powerful people would do to keep and increase their power in a world that is approaching a period of increasing weather disasters? Would a post-scarcity society benefit those people? - Lemmy.World

Is it really reasonable to think that everything we see on the news around the world is just the result of few deranged political leaders who follow just short-term agendas. This happened because Putin is just a megalomaniac who wants to conquer new territories. This happened because Netanyahu is just an extremist who wants to destroy all Palestinian. This happened because Trump is just a glorified con man who want power and money. What about the powers behind those people? What about the long-term interest? Are they really just ignoring the future global crisis? For example: Trump wants to control the US narrative and turn the global warming into a fluke, a scam. But what are really thinking the powers behind him? Could they just be so naive of their own long termn interests?? Or they actually want the things to change. I mean, it is quite expensive to keep the power in a democracy. All those “free things” to control: the market, the news, the education, that damn free speech… the human rights.