From 1905 to 1945, most Americans had an accurate idea of how to get wealthy. We understood the Machiavellian truth. Power and wealth are earned by evil and crime.
Busting this truth was a MAJOR part of Deepstate’s project after 1946. Massive media and school-based propaganda attempted to restore the lies of “equality” and “meritocracy”. Complete college and you will succeed. Work hard and you will succeed. Go into debt to buy stuff and you will succeed. Never save, never amortize, never stop to enjoy life.
The tech tyrants are the intended beneficiaries of these lies. Monsters owning the whole world through theft and cheating and evil. We’re supposed to believe they work 100000000000000000000000 times as hard as the rest of us in order to be 100000000000000000000000 times richer than the rest of us.
BUT: As in 1895-1905, the tyrants went too far, exposing the truth.
Sammy is a good example. He achieved $32 billion in nonexistent “wealth” by age 30, and he did it through connections and corruption and crime. Mostly connections. He inherited position and status, and he was born with the Professional Criminal genes. He used the genes to leverage status into tremendous wealth. He used the wealth to write “laws” and control “regulators” for his advantage.
Because it happened so fast, the story is much more visible and readable than the old-fashioned thieves of the Rockefeller era.
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Semi-related: Effective Altruism is a modern philosophy that justifies crime. It perfectly replicates Indulgences, an earlier philosophy that justified crime.
The priest said: “Give me all your money, and God will forgive your sins.”
The tech tyrant says: “Give me all your money, and Gaia will forgive your sins.”
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