Morphing Reality

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"distracted driving" can get you forced into a dungeon, but the companies distracting you in at least four different ways in the same second will never get a slap on the wrist or a fine for it, they are encouraged, its good for the GDP! #oligarchy

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@BTRBT_ Yeah you’ll oppose them, but not before enabling them to get to a position where your opposition is meaningless, and they’ll laugh at you

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@BTRBT_ It’s not authoritarian to prevent totalitarianism.

If you insist on climate controlled sand then that is of course up to you

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@BTRBT_ I didn’t say it’s an expression of intolerance, though one could easily argue that, this isn’t how analogies work.

I’m saying you will allow people to accumulate enough power that you can’t reasonably go after them, then what will you do?

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@BTRBT_ And on a separate note, if you want “everyone” to be wealthy and happy etc..

You absolutely cannot get there by allowing oligarchy and totalitarianism.

You would need to take the c4ss market anarchist anti capitalist route

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@BTRBT_ This boils down to a version of poppers tolerance of intolerance.

You’re allowing totalitarianism to take root on the basis that any effort to prevent it is somehow as bad or worse, which is frivolous.

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@BTRBT_ We should oppose oligarchy because the vast majority of humans clearly aren’t capable of having a lot of power and not using it in ways you might consider evil

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@BTRBT_ Yeah you’ll oppose them, but not before enabling them to get to a position where your opposition is meaningless, and they’ll laugh at you

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@BTRBT_ Yes, oligarchy can harm everyone without every oligarch being evil.

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@BTRBT_ Yes, oligarchy can harm everyone without every oligarch being evil.

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@BTRBT_ Of course it does, because somebody will take that power and use it, and they’ll walk you right into the totalitarianism you think you’re avoiding

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@BTRBT_ I never said all oligarchs are bad or evil or guilty of some wrongdoing, you’re seeing things.

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@BTRBT_ I’m describing oligarchy the way every dictionary and colloquial definition describes it.

It’s not my fault you’re advocating for it.

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@BTRBT_ Of course it’s up to me whether I trust them, who else would it be up to?

You’ll wait until it’s too late and then they’ll laugh at you when you say “hah I gotcha doing something I think is wrong”

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@BTRBT_ You’re advocating for oligarchy which harms everyone including every innocent.

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@BTRBT_ It’s not like power corrupts or anything wild like that!

I don’t trust anyone with the power of an oligarch.

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@BTRBT_ Fascinating conclusion to draw when I explicitly just said it’s not the only way to be an oligarch.

Then you will sleepwalk your way into totalitarianism while critiquing and fight against it as totalitarian.

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@BTRBT_ Most oligarchs derive their power from their wealth, but it’s not the only possible way to be one.

If you have a few people with enough wealth to coerce and control the majority, you have a form of oligarchy, which capitalism always becomes or starts as, including ancap.

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@markzomega @CodyLibolt The early days US was a place where almost nobody could vote, almost everyone could own human beings, power rested in the hands of a few oligarchs and moguls, 99% of workers were treated worse than cattle, and cattle were treated pretty poorly.

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@BTRBT_ I’d rather there be no oligarchs.

Govt could be funded voluntarily and non govt entities could be funded coercively.