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   Gilbert Pilz (gpilz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:07:27 JST Gilbert Pilz

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   • Steve Popovich

   @sspopovich @QasimRashid @pluralistic I feel like we've entered a new cycle of crack downs followed by protests which will motivate further crack downs, etc. It's weird that our owners don't have the historical awareness to know how these self-stoking cycles eventually end. I guess it goes to show that the rich aren't particularly bright or well-educated.

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     🎻s is the solution. (nceladean@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 07:07:27 JST 🎻s is the solution.

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Qasim Rashid, Esq.
     • Steve Popovich

     @gpilz @sspopovich @QasimRashid @pluralistic

     Extreme wealth inequality severely impedes social mobility so that the members of the current ruling elite are not drawn from the best and brightest of society (who are scattered more or less randomly throughout) but limited to those already born into wealth and privilege. The leadership class, incapacitated by the incompetence and ineptness of its members, is unable to deal effectively with these sorts of challenges, inevitably making things worse

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     Steve of Mastodon (marsfield@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 08:23:14 JST Steve of Mastodon

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Qasim Rashid, Esq.
     • Steve Popovich
     • 🎻s is the solution.

     @nceladean @gpilz @sspopovich @QasimRashid @pluralistic

     100% agree "The leadership class, incapacitated by the incompetence and ineptness of its members, is unable to deal effectively with these sorts of challenges, inevitably making things worse." Trickle-down structural consequence is 'kiss up, kick down' managers.