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rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The universe of stupidity is so endless that I don’t know in which direction to fight really.

On most public\political subjects people I talk to think I’m delusional, they talk how “free markets don’t work”, “regulation prevents murderous chaos”, “regulation prevents monopolies and wild capitalism” and so on.

But when it’s this kind of thing, it suddenly becomes all right for them to offload a public service to a private company. And they suddenly become optimists. Same fscking people. I once had that from a communist.

I think it’s primate psychology. Libertarian ideas are seen as delusional because these people fear chaos and the feeling of letting go. And for the same reason big corporations are seen as all right because they are familiar, there’s the feeling of order and control. Primates flock to strength.

For the same reason some people defend copyright, I think. They want hierarchy, somebody owning every recognizable picture. A master in the house.

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