• green_light_stop@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s crazy to me that we live in a world where money and celebrity implies influence, and credentials don’t mean much on a general public stage. This man can tweet something insane and its taken as a serious discussion point.

    Given that money can buy influence, it is a legitimate risk to society, I get that. But how crazy is that as a concept?

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      1 year ago

      Ever seen the movie Glass Onion? There’s a character who is modeled partly on Musk, and it’s spot on.

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      1 year ago

      It’s as much a function of human evolution as it is of how our society functions. And hell, isn’t that dependent on human evolution too?

      We evolved to survive, not to run a society. We’ve done pretty well overall despite that problem, but the wheels are coming off.

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        Humans have evolved to be social cooperative creatures not greedy selfish hoarders, and it is only in the last few thousand years, a blip in human history, that these systems developed by, and that only reward, greed and selfishness, have been around.

        Don’t let these systems and the people who benefit from them (and those who have been propagandised to believe they benefit from it but really don’t) fool you in to thinking any of this is natural.

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          From what I’ve been learning about human history, your first paragraph does seem to be the case. However, we didn’t have near the same numbers then as we do now. It’s the scarily, or appearance thereof, that causes the selfishness in my opinion.