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GhostOnTheHalfShellThe rich are just as subject to folly as any of us. Their wealth allows them to inflict it on everyone.
It’s a harm amplifier
𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇨🇦)@GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic
Yeah, they are actually imho way more subject ot folly than any of us, because their money printers means they always print more to solve their problems which shields them from being in touch with reality. It shields them from any feedback. It shields them from learning. They have to all "imagine" things in the abstract.
The masses feel the consequences personally and thus learn a lot more much faster, because they have to.
Lets stop their money printers! 🙂