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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social |
I also think some very wealthy people simply aren't that bright. They genuinely believe their own meritocratic myths and fail to understand how things like public education make them money or keep them alive. They won't connect the dots until their nurse fails to read a pill bottle properly.
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Csimm
@csimmons21.bsky.social
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An uneducated population is more easily controlled. Nihilist, but I think that’s it.
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Rob Sheridan
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Think of how quick it happens to even mildly well-to-do boomers who came up the middle class path they torched, & now get so mad about things like bike lanes, bc they’re retired homeowners long removed from urban commuting. Billionaires are like 1000000x that level of societal detachment. Terrifying
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Hampton
@hamptonstevens.bsky.social
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Yeah, sometimes I just don't think they think it through.
www.cnbc.com/2023/07/11/i...
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C.V. Danes
@cvdanes.bsky.social
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"The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It's bullshit."
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Daniel Feldman
@dfeldman.bsky.social
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They're against universal health insurance even though they spend huge percentages of their companies' expenses on health insurance It's not about self-interest, it's about what their group thinks
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Erika Hall
@erikahall.bsky.social
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I grew up on welfare in LA. I unexpectedly went to an Ivy. I met people with no life experience and wild opinions. That was the greatest education. Since then I've seen so many well-connected white men get picked up every time they fall. Doesn't take that much wealth to be insulated from learning.
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Erika Hall
@erikahall.bsky.social
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The most accurate tweet.
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OldeHippi🦋
@oldehippi.bsky.social
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And, unfortunately, Stupid is quite the thing right now. It seems to be the era of Idiots and Lunatics.
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Neighborhood civility patrol, bark
@acindc.bsky.social
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Yes, agree
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The Rt Hon Lady Kidman
@nicolekidmansnose.bsky.social
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Intelligence being genetic is one of the biggest myths our elites force themselves to believe in.
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JeannetteBlue
@jeannetteblue.bsky.social
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It’s seriously stunning how these oligarch wannabes can’t see what living in a country without access to good public education and lots of guns is like. There are several good examples in the world right now. Their fever dream is that they would be the princess in the story not the scullery maid.
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Mithos
@mithos343.bsky.social
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This is The Ackman
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WildGorillaMan
@wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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I often think of the line in Westworld (2016) where the owner of the megacorp that built the killer robots says something like "I'm dying of a disease whose research funding for a cure I canceled 15 years ago."
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khwalz
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There is ample evidence, in my view, that a great many wealthy people are un- or ill-educated. And by that I don't mean merely disagreeing with the left. I mean seriously, literally un- or ill-educated. But so many of them have no reason to care.
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The future producer of “Himbo Heist”
@legalminimum.bsky.social
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I had a dispute about this at the weekend with a bunch of tech company GCs when I said AI is a scam and they said “a lot of smart people disagree” and I said that’s how you know it’s a scam.
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Vance Maverick
@vancemaverick.bsky.social
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solution: bespoke Ivy-league nurses
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Blue Honey
@devans00.bsky.social
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The fact that supposedly smart rich people do everything they can to accelerate environmental destruction, including crushing public infrastructure/transportation initiatives, shows they have zero clue about true sources of their wealth. Breathtakingly dumb. 😕😐
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Hare 🍉
@haredurer.bsky.social
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Capital will also happily sell off everything it needs to function in order to bump up the quarterly return by .5%
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costrike
@costrike.bsky.social
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Can we skip ahead to the last bit?
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Josh "Go Drink The Sea" Brown
@theotherspeakman.bsky.social
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Ralphie (Dr. Stupid): HELLO, I'M DR. STUPID. I'M GOING TO TAKE OUT YOUR LIVER BONES. *Decapitates Doll Mr. Burns with a bonesaw* OOPS, YOU'RE DEAD. Mr. Burns (Real): I NEVER LIKED THAT DR. STUPID.
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2bit_natty (she/they)🔞 possum
@emily-senpai.bsky.social
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If conservatives ACTUALLY cared about "financial responsibility" like they claim to, we would have universal healthcare and free college and a basic income and comprehensive sex education etc etc etc
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atreides nuts
@afivegantenna.bsky.social
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i swear there’s later simpsons episode where they have to convince mr burns of the value of education by showing him a series of parable-like skits of what would happen with uneducated nurses and so on
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The Prankster: Spocking Fives
@prankster36.bsky.social
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I never liked that Dr. Stupid
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𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱
@leupp.bsky.social
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It’s “good times create weak men” but at the family level
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Career Quartermaster
@cmiciek.bsky.social
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It's things like this...
www.phillyvoice.com/penn-wharton...
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Don Zeko
@donzeko.bsky.social
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This matches my experience waiting tables at a country club
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@drunkenlemur.bsky.social
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I never did like that Doctor Stupid.
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JaneDanger
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Its really easy to let that view just get narrower and narrower when you have no need to work with people or share resources. Like just being in school you have to learn about all these people you thought you wouldnt like but actually end up being okay Seems like people with money must idk
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Pascal 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷
@pascalr57.bsky.social
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Educated doesn't mean clever nor intelligent.
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Intellectual Explorer
@driftingthrough.bsky.social
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Wealth is definitely no proxy for intelligence or wisdom or moral superiority. There's probably a strong association with conceit though, which I hypothesize is a result of spared lessons from failure. I'd like to see some science.
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VierLeger
@vierleger.bsky.social
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Anyone who’s peeked at the last few pages of a U-Line catalog can confirm this.
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Jay Marose
@jaymarose.bsky.social
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It’s why I never repped business books. Horowitz’s book, Hard Choices (juvenile joke intended), there’s a chapter about how no one cares about your decision making until it affects their job. See, it’s hard spending other people’s money, never losing & taxed like fast food worker.
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Dog Walker
@trsmidget.bsky.social
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I don’t understand the point to all this? Most working people are who keeps America going. The regular people. If the cogs get stuck, things don’t work anymore.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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My theory is that a lot of them have married each other for so many generations to keep the money in the family that they're all fully inbred now
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Materialist Gnostic
@walmsley.bsky.social
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You kinda can't look at Elon Musk and escape the conclusion that maybe success is not all being a very special genius with unique insights.
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Azhrie Drake
@azhrie139.bsky.social
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Some? Try 99%
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